Informing the Consent Process

Informing the consent process.

Because the legal and ethical aspects of informed consent are often foremost in clinicians’ minds, it is easy to forget that the purpose of informed consent is to aid in decision making. Informed consent forms, for example, are often written with legal and institutional priorities in mind,1 and patients in turn assume that the primary purpose of such forms is to protect physicians and their ins...

Entertainment—The Painful Process of Rethinking Consent

Informing the Requirements Process with Patterns of Cooperative Interaction

The need to understand the social context within which work to be supported by computer-based systems takes place is broadly recognised within the RE community. Ethnographic studies have been used in particular to inform the requirements process from a social perspective. To make this accessible to requirements engineers, work in this area has focused on how to integrate and communicate ethnogr...

Short Title: Alternate Consent Process Testing an Alternate Informed Consent Process

1 Background: One of the main problems in conducting clinical trials is a low participation rate 2 due to potential participants’ misunderstanding of the rationale for the clinical trial or 3 perceptions of loss of control over treatment decisions. 4 Objectives: The purpose of this study was to test an alternate informed consent process in 5 cardiac rehabilitation participants that involved the...

Improving the quality of consent to randomised controlled trials by using continuous consent and clinician training in the consent process.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether continuous consent, a process in which information is given to research participants at different stages in a trial, and clinician training in that process were effective when used by clinicians while gaining consent to the Total Body Hypothermia (TOBY) trial. The TOBY trial is a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigating the use of whole-body cooling for neonat...