TY - JOUR T1 - Obtaining informed consent for delivery room research: the investigators' perspective JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition JO - Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed SP - F90 LP - F91 DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-310934 VL - 102 IS - 1 AU - Elizabeth E Foglia AU - Louise S Owen AU - Martin Keszler AU - Peter G Davis AU - Haresh Kirpalani Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://fn.bmj.com/content/102/1/F90.abstract N2 - Research on delivery room (DR) resuscitation poses unique challenges. Because prospective informed consent is obtained before birth, many parents consent for studies for which their infants never become eligible.1 Conversely, many infants who require resuscitation are not enrolled, due to insufficient opportunity for parents to provide antenatal consent.2 One alternative is a waiver of prospective informed consent (or ‘retrospective’ or ‘deferred’ consent), in which eligible infants are enrolled after birth, and parents are approached for consent as soon as possible after enrolment. We sought to understand the views of international neonatal resuscitation scientists regarding these practices.We surveyed participants at the Fourth International Neonatal Resuscitation Research Workshop (28–30 April 2015). Attendees included investigators, members of the International Liaison … ER -