Severely injured patients are often incapacitated to provide informed consent for clinical studies. Deferred consent could facilitate unbiased enrollment in studies involving these patients. Little is known about how healthcare professionals (HCPs) perceive deferred consent and how this impacts patient enrollment. The aim of this study was to identify factors that could influence HCPs decision-making during recruitment of patients for interventional studies in (pre)hospital emergency trauma research.
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