Will My Information Be Kept Confidential?
If you agree to take part in a clinical trial, all your trial records and any information that is collected about you will be kept confidential, the same as your medical records. The researchers cannot tell anyone that you are in the trial without asking you first. If your doctor or consultant is not the person who recruited you into the trial, it can be helpful for them to be told you are in a trial as they will be responsible for your day-today health care, but they can only be told with your permission. Once the trial has finished, the results are usually published and often presented at conferences. No name or any information that can identify you will be used in any reports about the trial.