Vickers believes that a couple of statements contained in our article [
[1]
] are ‘grossly erroneous’ [
[2]
]. One is that the control group participants of Just-in-time consent “would not know
that their assignment was made by a random process”. The second is that Just-in-time
consent does not “fulfil the three following ethical features: participants must agree
to contribute to the trial, this must be known at the time they are recruited, and
they must know that they have participated in it.” [
- Vickers A.
Inaccurate description of staged consent.
Eur J Intern Med. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2022.11.019
[2]
]. We disagree with Vickers. We believe that from the article he co-authored [
- Vickers A.
Inaccurate description of staged consent.
Eur J Intern Med. 2022; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2022.11.019
[3]
], which we used as a reference for our article [
[1]
], our two statements are correct.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: November 29, 2022
Accepted:
November 24,
2022
Received:
November 21,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Corrected ProofIdentification
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