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Doctors at Cincinnati Children’s often decide that tests need to be run during a patient’s visit. This may require collecting a small amount of blood or tissue from a patient. Other times, an operation is performed where tissue is removed.  After all tests are completed, sometimes sample remains. We would like your permission to use this extra sample for research. No additional samples would need to be taken for this project and participation would not cost you anything extra.

During registration at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, you will be asked to agree to participate in this project.  All you need to do is agree; we will handle the rest.  We will get any leftover samples, process them, and give them to researchers. If you decide that you don’t want to participate, there is a form to sign for that option as well. Rest assured, there would be no effect on your clinical care.

These samples will let us study health and disease in humans with the goal of identifying, treating and preventing illness.  Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s who have projects that need samples will apply to a group called the Tissue Use Committee, made up of doctors and / or scientists.  This group ensures that all studies make sense and are likely to help understand and improve human health.  The researchers will not be told who you are.

For general questions about the study, you can call us at 513-636-6895 or email us at betteroutcomesforchildren@cchmc.org.