The study coordinator assesses patient and caregiver understanding using a brief quiz. Patients and caregivers also rate their pre and post test understanding of the key points. Indeed, this article is itself part of this effort to return the knowledge gained back to the people who made it possible. We did this because the fundamental justification for enrolling patients in research is the importance of the knowledge to be gained. One key way to honor the justification is to inform the subjects of the research what we learned about them and about the intervention they received.
Clinical research is among the best ways to improve the standard of care.
The Memory Disorders Clinic is committed to participating in well-designed trials of promising new interventions. We are also committed to conducting these trials according to the highest standards of ethics.