Consent for research

Obtaining consent for neonatal research.

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Parental consent for pediatric research.

Understood Consent Versus Informed Consent: A New Paradigm for Obtaining Consent for Pediatric Research Studies

All too often the informed consent process is viewed by members of research teams as a challenge of getting a parent or young person's signature on a form. Informed consent is, however, much more than a signed form. Rather, it is a process, often iterative, in which the parent or young person is given sufficient information about a study in order that they can make a truly informed decision abo...

Consent for children participating in research.

March 2012, Vol. 102, No. 3 SAMJ Consent for children participating in research To the Editor: With reference to the article and more recent letter on the implications for researchers, service providers and policy makers of child consent in South African law,1,2 I wish to put forward a different but more appropriate approach to consent for children participating in research. Although I agree th...

Beyond the informed consent procedure: continuing consent in human research.

An ethnographic field study about informed consent in hepatitis C clinical trials provides insight into how changes in protocol requirements and patient health status triggered the actions and decisions of researchers and human subjects during the conduct of these trials. U.S. federal guidelines recommend that informed consent should be conceptualized as more than a one-time event. Rather, a pr...