From v9.1, OpenSpecimen supports sharing the consent document across the multiple collection protocols.
UseCase:
Many Collection Protocols use the same consent forms; having duplicates is painful to maintain across languages and versions. Instead, because of this new enhancement, consent forms were defined outside and used within the CP.
Once the user upgrades the OpenSpecimen with the v9.1 version, all of their CP level consent forms will automatically be moved to the system level.
How to access the System Level Consent documents?
Navigate to Home → Consents → View Documents (Screenshot Below)
You can see the list of all consent documents used across all the CPs.
You can add, update, archive, add revision, and download the consent forms from the list view, same as before.
Since all of the consent document operations are provided at the system level, there is no provision to change the consent document at the CP level. You can only archive the document at the CP level.
How does System Level Consent Document work?
Only super and institute admin users can create and update system-level consent documents. The Institute admin can update the documents created by the institute admin of any institute.
The CP users can use any system-level consent documents in their CPs to capture the patient consent. When the user clicks on the +Add button, OpenSpecimen will show the list of all consent documents present at the system level.
When a system-level consent document is archived, it cannot be used in any new associations with the CPs.
When a consent document added at the CP level is archived, it cannot be used to capture the patient responses.