Informed consent is a vital part of healthcare, ensuring that patients understand their treatment options and can make ...

Obtaining the informed consent of a potential human subject for participation in any research (whether an experiment, survey, interview, or demonstration) is a federally mandated safeguard for ...

Human clinical trials are the final stage of research for any new medical treatment. Medical breakthroughs rely on willing participation from people who agree to be part of the studies. Joining a ...

Informed consent has been defined as "an individual's autonomous authorization of a medical intervention or of participation in research". [1] In professional and legal regulations it is widely ...

The editorial in the September 1982 issue of this journal and many articles before and since have addressed the problem of informed consent. Is it possible? Is it a useful concept? Is there anything ...

Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a patient’s comfort and safety. Some people, however, are sounding the alarm about what they believe to be a major blind spot: the lack of informed ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Influenza-related GBS is 17x higher than the risks of GBS from vaccines. Informed Consent Requirements Should Not Be a Scare Tactic STAT writes, “Kennedy wants future vaccine communications to focus ...