Informed consent; legal and ethical considerations

Informed consent for neonatal circumcision: an ethical and legal conundrum.

Ethical Informed Consent Considerations for Research in Severe Mental Illness

Study Objective: The objective of this integrative review is to update researchers on the clinical and ethical considerations that are shaping the current understanding of informed consent for research participants with a severe mental illness (SMI). METHOD: A literature search was performed within the last 5 years in the following databases: Legal Collection, MasterFile Premier, MEDLINE, and P...

Informed Consent: Legal Issues

We mentioned previously that legal standards for appropriate informed consent disclosure of information often differ from moral standards. In this section we examine legal standards. Unfortunately or not, there are many different legal systems in the United States. Each state has its own set of laws, and in each judges are bound by different precedents. In the United States, as in countries lik...

e-Informed Consent in Clinical Trials – ethical considerations

This article is dedicated to analyze the possible impact of e-informed consent on clinical trials. The development of e-communication, telemedicine and e-Health, as well as the increasing number of clinical trials has required a new modality to inform and educate patients. Considering the importance of the informed consent from the patients’ point of view, we analyse the developing standards in...

Are open-Label Placebos Ethical? Informed Consent and Ethical Equivocations.

The doctor-patient relationship is built on an implicit covenant of trust, yet it was not until the post-World War Two era that respect for patient autonomy emerged as an article of mainstream medical ethics. Unlike their medical forebears, physicians today are expected to furnish patients with adequate information about diagnoses, prognoses and treatments. Against these dicta there has been on...