print email comment close Should I Enter a Clinical Trial? A Patient Reference Guide for Adults With a Serious or Life-Threatening Illness URL: https://www.ecri.org/Documents/Clinical_Trials_Patient_Reference_Guide.pdf Description: Information for patients considering participating in a clinical trial. The guide answers basic questions about what is entailed in a clinical trial, where to find out about available trials, and how to enter one; the difference phases; how to interpret outcomes; informed consent; compensation, if any; and ethical issues. Opens directly into a PDF file. From ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute), a nonprofit health-services research agency. Publisher: ECRI Library of Congress Subject Headings: Clinical trials LII Database Information: Record 7851 created by Barbara Bibel on 10/26/2002 Last modification on 07/02/2008 Published: 10/26/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/7851