Gaining patients' consent

Gaining informed consent for blood transfusion.

Transfusion of blood and blood products is a common procedure that has significant benefits but is also associated with serious risks. Patients needing blood transfusion require full information on these benefits and risks in order to make informed consent. This article, the first in a five-part series, discusses the process of gaining consent and resources available to support patients and hea...

Gaining patient consent for blood tests following sharps injuries.

There is a high risk of staff receiving needlestick and other sharps injuries while working in health care. Concern is so great that a seminar on sharps injury prevention and single-use medical devices was held in March 2003 at the European Parliament in Brussels. Injuries caused by needles and other sharp medical devices, and the related risk of potentially fatal disease transmission, remain a...

Gaining consent for publication in difficult cases involving children.

Methodological reasons for not gaining prior informed consent are sometimes justified.

Informed consent is generally required before medical research interventions. Despite this, good reasons not to seek such consent often exist. Examples might include research with incompetent patients, research using anonymised tissue samples, and certain types of epidemiological research. Another reason, often forgotten, is where there are methodological reasons not to seek consent in advance ...

Ethics in action: consent-gaining interactions and implications for research practice.

This article deals with the topic of social psychological research methods in practice, by examining how informed consent is gained from research participants. In most research, the consent-gaining process is hidden from analytic scrutiny and is dealt with before data collection has begun. In contrast, conversation analytic research, which records interactional encounters from beginning to end,...