The consent responses can be recorded from during or after participant registration. Consents can be collected in any of the below screens:
Register participant page
Participant overview page > Consents tab
Patient Mode: This logs out the lab person from OpenSpecimen. The tab can then be given to the participant in the patient mode so that s/he can take her/his time to read and submit the responses.
Consent Collector mode: This allows the person who is collecting consents to stay logged in and enter the responses himself
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modes:Survey Mode
Consent Collector Mode
Via Email
Privileges
A user having the below necessary privileges will be able to collect consent data from patients:
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From v7.0, a “Consent Collector” role is also present by default which has the above privileges required to collect consent.
Clinical Coordinator Mode
This mode is used when an OpenSpecimen user is collecting the consent.
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Go to CP overview> Participants > Add Enter the participant details At the end of the page, click on “Proceed to Consents”
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Click on “Add” for adding the consent in consent collector mode. Click on “Patient Mode” for handing it to the patient.
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Survey Mode- Allows you to enter responses in the Survey mode. This is used when participant is asked to fill in the survey responses Choose the consent that you want to enter from the dropdown
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Enter the consent responses and click “Save”. In case it is in the “Patient Mode” a message will be displayed.
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Survey Mode
This is used when you want to hand over a tablet or a desktop to the participant. The survey can be filled in two different modes:
as a signed-in user- The user is not logged out of the system while filling responses
as a participant- The user is logged out of the system while filling the responses
For details on how to create surveys and use them, refer ‘Surveys ’ wiki
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Go to
CP ‘Participant Overview >
Participant list > Participant > Consents tab
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Editing the consent response
The consent response can be changed for a particular participant as below:
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Go to the Participant > Overview > Consents tab Click on the “Edit” icon beside the consent document for which response is to be edited
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Print/Save PDF of the consent
Consents > Survey Mode’
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Print/Save PDF
The filled-up consent document can be printed or downloaded as PDF as below:
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Go to Participant > Overview > Consents tab Click on the consent document title which is to be printed
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Email Consent Forms
The consent form can also be emailed to the participants so that they can enter the consent details from home. A unique URL is generated per participant and is valid for a configured number of days.
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Go to the Participant list page of a CP. Select the participants to whom you want to email the consent. Click on “Email Survey” at the top.
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Refer to Email Forms to Participants for more information on prerequisites, configuring the email template, and the number of days the link remains active.
Delete collected Survey/eConsent form
Sometimes users collect the consent incorrectly, or patients want to revoke the consent. In that case, user can delete that collected consent from the OpenSpecimen v9.1 version using the below step.
Go to the Participant Overview page.
Click on the Consents tab.
Click on the Delete button highlighted in the below screenshot
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