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It's just about a given that informed consent documents making their way to the IRB for approval will need to be revised for comprehension and readability. Investigators and sponsors tend to include long sentences and paragraphs and technical jargon that leads the MEGO syndrome — "my eyes glaze over," says Stewart A. Laidlaw, PhD, an associate vice president for compliance at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed) in Torrance, CA.

IRB improves consent forms with help from analysts