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RECOVERY-RS trial finds continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduces need for invasive ventilation in hospitalised COVID-19 patients | NIHR (link)
Patient Information Sheet and Consent Form Clarification
Recent version control monitoring checks have revealed some discrepancies with the wrong versions of Patient Information Sheets and Consent forms used as sites have found the naming of documents confusing to navigate. We apologise for the confusion caused and to help provide clarity of which version to use please see the following table:
Patient Information Sheet |
Consent Form |
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For patients with mental capacity prior to randomisation |
RECOVERY-RS PIS on commencement |
RECOVERY-RS Consent Form on Commencement |
For patient with mental capacity post randomisation |
RECOVERY-RS Patient Information Sheet |
RECOVERY-RS Patient Deferred Consent |
For consultees where patients do not have capacity post randomisation or by/after hospital discharge |
RECOVERY-RS Patient Information Sheet |
RECOVERY-RS Declaration Consent Form Consultee |
As a reminder, if you are unable to obtain consent from a patient with mental capacity or consultee post randomisation before they are discharged/transferred from hospital, you should attempt to contact the patient/consultee up to 3 times by telephone to seek verbal agreement. If you are unsuccessful in reaching them after 3 attempts you do not need to contact them further as we have permission from our REC for the patient’s data to remain in the trial.
RECOVERY-RS is now the largest global non-invasive respiratory support trial for COVID-19
RECOVERY-RS is now the largest global non-invasive respiratory support trial for COVID-19 with 1,106 patients recruited as of this morning. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff, patients and families involved for helping us reach this incredible milestone!
900th patient recruited!
A big thank you to all of our recruitment sites, patients and families for helping us reach the milestone of 900 patients recruited. Recruitment has been phenomenal the last few weeks and your hard work does not go unnoticed. Thank you!
RECOVERY-RS 836 patients recruited!
836 patients have now been recruited to RECOVERY-RS. We would like to say a huge thank you to our recruitment sites, patients and their families for helping us to reach this milestone. These are very challenging times and we appreciate all of your hard work. Recruitment has been exceptional over the Christmas period with over 250 patients recruited in the last month alone. We look forward to our next interim analysis taking place soon and thank sites for your hard work with data collection.
Addressing clinical equipoise in research
“We just don’t know” Richard Innes, Consultant in Intensive Care at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Research Speciality Lead for Critical Care, says when describing the context for the RECOVERY-RS Study. The study looks to shed light on the most suitable form of ventilation to use when treating the patients worst affected by COVID-19.
Read more here: https://local.nihr.ac.uk/news/recovery-rs-addressing-clinical-equipoise-in-research/26414