EDITORIAL

Consent bias in research: how to avoid it

Cornelia Junghans¹, Melvyn Jones²

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Clinical Epidemiology Group, Royal Free and University College London Medical School UCL, London, UK
² Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School UCL, London, UK

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Correspondence to:
Dr M Jones
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School UCL, Holborn Union Building, Archway Campus, London N19 5LW, UK; m.jones{at}pcps.ucl.ac.uk

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Keywords: selection bias; consent; observational research

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