The checklist is designed to help researchers determine is written information consent is needed from individual clinicians in a cluster randomized trial (CRT). That is, in which a “cluster” of clinicians (e.g., a primary care clinic) is the unit of randomization, and that each cluster includes both clinicians and patients. The same general principles could be applied to other types of CRTs that involve other types of staff/employee participants (e.g., administrators) or other types of individual participants (e.g., health plan members, community residents). Click here to download.
From the HMO Research Network Collaboration Toolkit. www.hmoresearchnetwork.org
