Informed consent in medical practice

[Informed consent in clinical practice and medical research].

The present paper deals with the basic aspects, influences and elements that constitute Informed Consent seeing it as a process and not only as an administrative format. Both the patient-physician relationship, as well as the research subject-investigator relationship, should be seen in the same manner, in spite of recognizing specific objectives for each one. For this reason, Informed Consent ...

Accountability, trust and informed consent in medical practice and research.

During the last 25 years public policy in the UK has aimed to replace 'club' cultures and their supposedly suspect reliance on trust between professionals and public with a new public culture based on accountability and 'transparency'. These transformations have changed both clinical practice and public health policy in deep ways. Are the new conceptions of accountability adequate? Are obligati...

Informed consent in pediatric practice.

Informed consent is a communication process of providing the patient/parents/guardians with relevant information regarding the treatment and the diagnosis, so that they can make informed decisions. The process of informed consent in pediatric patients is not well understood. The amount of information to be disclosed in an informed consent is a matter of debate. There are four basic elements to ...

Informed consent in medical research.

That people should only be enrolled in medical research if they have given free and informed consent is now an unquestioned principle of research ethics. It is however a recent innovation. Prior to the prominence given to consent to participation in research in the condemnation of German doctors arraigned at Nuremberg in 1945, informed consent had appeared in American litigation, but only as an...

Informed Consent in Medical Malpractice