There has been an increased focus over the past couple of years on patient rights, resulting in a renewed emphasis on informed consent by healthcare regulators, such as The Joint Commission. This ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

The use of deception or incomplete disclosure limits the subject's ability to make a fully informed decision of whether to participate in the research — one of the essential ethical concerns in human ...

Federal regulations require that researchers obtain legally effective, documented, voluntary informed consent from prospective subjects (or subjects' legally authorized representatives) before ...

If you have a medical practice, it’s easy to think that once you’ve described a treatment route to a patient, they fully understand why it’s appropriate for their healthcare. It’s also easy to think ...

The University IRB applies all Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requirements for informed consent to greater than minimal risk research: DHHS general requirements (at 45 CFR 46.116) (see ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

Conversations about clinical trial diversity have finally gone mainstream, but the numbers haven’t quite caught up. Improvement may rely on homing in on one key aspect: informed consent. “Informed ...

Achieving informed consent requires a potential contributor to be in possession of sufficient knowledge about our plans for a reasoned decision to take part in our content. The Editorial Guidelines ...