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. 2013 Dec 1;188(11):1370–1373. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201307-1235LE

TABLE 1.

SURROGATE CONSENT FOR ANCILLARY GENETIC SUBSTUDIES BY PATIENT RACE/ETHNICITY

Patient Percentage of Surrogate Approval for Genetic Substudies
Genetic Studies for Parent Study Only (n = 1164) Future Genetic Studies for Any ARDS-related Research (n = 1164) Future Genetic Studies for Non–ARDS-related Research (n = 1059)
Race      
 White 93.8% [92.2–95.4%] (n = 884) 92.3% [90.5–94.1%] (n = 884) 87.6% [85.3–89.9%] (n = 798)
 African American 84.8% [79.7–89.9%] (n = 191) 83.8% [75.6–89.0%] (n = 191) 79.1% [73.2–85.0%] (n = 182)
 Other 81.0% [69.1–92.3%] (n = 42) 81.0% [69.1–92.3%] (n = 42) 71.4% [56.4–86.4%] (n = 35)
Ethnicity: Hispanic 90.5% [85.6–95.4%] (n = 137) 86.9% [81.3–92.6%] (n = 137) 74.2% [66.6–81.8%] (n = 128)

Data in brackets are 95% confidence intervals.