Clinician FAQs

Information entered into the CART-Wheel.org questionnaire cannot be used for research purposes until a Consent Form is completed by the participant (or their proxy) and submitted. This is a requirement of the ethics approval granted by the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee (MH HREC).

Your patients can provide their consent by completing a Consent Form – either via the online consent facility or by printing a form and returning it to the CART-Wheel.org office by email or mail. They should tick 'yes' at consent option 2 and name you as their clinician. This process involving clinicians has been approved by the MH HREC.

If your patient can read and understand the Consent Form, a witness signature is not necessary. Clinicians can return completed forms on behalf of their patients. The forms can be scanned (or photographed) and emailed to contact@cart-wheel.org or posted to:

CART-WHEEL BioGrid Australia
PO Box 2138
Royal Melbourne Hospital VIC 3050 Australia

Receipt of the Consent Form will be acknowledged by email. Once the form is received and processed, your patient’s consent status (seen in your account) will change from 'Pending' to 'Consented'.

If your patient can read and understand the Consent Form, a witness signature is not necessary. 

The ethics approval for CART-Wheel.org granted by the Melbourne Health Human Research Ethics Committee requires a witness signature on the Consent Form only in the following situations:

• when the potential participant cannot read or cannot understand English due to English not being their preferred language,
• when the participant is unable to read English due to blindness, cognitive impairment or is illiterate.

In these situations the witness is signing to state that they are satisfied that the project, as explained on the Consent Form, has been fully explained to the participant and that they believe the participant has been able to ask questions and receive satisfactory answers. Further, the witness believes that the participant has understood the explanation of the project.

If a witness signature is required, it is preferable that the witness be a member of your patient’s family or a friend, rather than yourself. If a relative or friend is not available, a staff member who is not directly related to CART-Wheel is the best choice.

Clinicians can return completed Consent Forms on behalf of their patients. The forms can be scanned (or photographed) and emailed to contact@cart-wheel.org or posted to:

CART-WHEEL BioGrid Australia
PO Box 2138
Royal Melbourne Hospital VIC 3050 Australia