By Tasha Mohseni, President and Founder, RD Research Services, LLC Recently, I sat down to review a 30-page consent form. Section by section, the content was technically compliant. By the last page, I found myself asking a different question: If someone with a regulatory background like me had to concentrate and reread some parts, what on Earth would it look like to a participant with no clinical (or regulatory) background at all? That question reveals a real problem.