Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) Patient Registry


It is my hope that the prevalence of corn allergies will finally be revealed as a result of this survey.

“Food allergy is a serious health condition, but you can make a difference. Help speed the search for better treatments by enrolling in the FARE Patient Registry.

Sign up and join a community of more than 7,000 patients and families. We continue to add new surveys to help you share your experiences and advance our understanding of food allergy.

Food allergy is a serious and growing public health issue. Approximately 15 million Americans have food allergies, including 1 in 13 children. Every three minutes, someone is taken to the emergency room for a food allergy reaction in the United States, and the underlying causes of food allergy and its rapid rise in recent years is still unknown.

FARE’s Patient Registry seeks to answer these questions – and achieve so much more as we work to accelerate research in the area of food allergy. The information you provide will help foster new directions in research to better understand how food allergies affect individual patients and what therapies can be developed to help them. Your participation may help us discover new ways to improve patients’ lives and connect individuals and families to new and innovative clinical trials nationwide.

What are the potential benefits of participating?
You may not benefit directly from participating in the FARE Patient Registry. You may receive information that you find helpful, such as information about the FARE Patient Registry study or food allergies.  The information collected by the FARE Patient Registry may help researchers gain a better understanding of food allergies and may lead to better diagnostic tests and treatments.  By taking surveys you may learn about FARE Patient Registry research findings, including how your answers compare with those of other food allergy patients and new discoveries made by FARE research programs.
What are the potential risks of participating?
There are no major risks associated with participation in this study.  None of the surveys or tools used in the FARE Patient Registry study are interventional, invasive or experimental and involve minimal risk as described hereafter.  Although we will take every precaution to protect your personal information, there is a risk that your privacy may be compromised. In the unlikely situation where this happens, you will be notified right away. Keeping the information from your survey in a secure computer database will limit that risk, but does not eliminate it. FARE Patient Registry staff are trained on how to work with human research participants.   If you share your login and password with others, they may be able to access your account and self-reported survey answers.  There may be other risks that are currently unknown.
There may be risks of loss of privacy and confidentiality if the PDF copy of this consent form is viewed and/or stored on a personal electronic device (PED), especially if that PED is shared with other users or is lost, hacked, or subject to a search warrant or subpoena.
If you change your mind and no longer want to be part of the FARE Patient Registry, you may contact the FARE Patient Registry Coordinator by e-mail at fare.coordinator@altavoice.com. Your account will be deleted; however, data previously collected and de-identified before you decided to withdraw from the FARE Patient Registry cannot be retrieved.  The FARE Patient registry cannot retract the use of de-identified data from studies prior to the date you decided to opt-out.  In the event this study is terminated, FARE will maintain your participant data according to the terms of our Privacy Statement.
You may decide to not participate or you may leave the Registry at any time. Your decision will not result in any penalty or loss of benefits to which you are entitled.
This Registry is for research purposes only. The only alternative is to not participate in this Registry.
There is no cost to you for taking part in this Registry.
You will be told about any new information found during your participation in the Registry that may affect whether you want to continue to take part.”


Diane H., Corn Allergy Advocate
Corn Allergy Advocacy/Resources
@CornAllergy911



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