When lecturers need patient consent

Switching to generic: the need for physician and patient consent when substituting antiepileptic medication.

Need for ethics approval and patient consent in clinical research.

A key principle in clinical research is the need to obtain approval from a Research Ethics Committee before commencing a study, and then to obtain consent from each subject enrolled into the study. This tenet is highlighted in the Helsinki Declaration and reinforced in subsequent principles such as Good Clinical Practice/International Committee on Harmonisation. However, not all clinical studie...

When is Informed Consent “Informed”?

Typically, a consent document in the United States is a printed form with blank spaces in which the operative procedure is filled in. The form is signed by the patient, and placed into the medical record. At first glance, it would seem that the patient was told of the operative procedure and gave his or her consent. Yet informed consent, or, more accurately, lack of informed consent, is a frequ...

What is presumed when we presume consent?

BACKGROUND The organ donor shortfall in the UK has prompted calls to introduce legislation to allow for presumed consent: if there is no explicit objection to donation of an organ, consent should be presumed. The current debate has not taken in account accepted meanings of presumption in law and science and the consequences for rights of ownership that would arise should presumed consent become...

Gamete donation: when does consent become irrevocable?

question, when, if at all, is it morally wrong to withdraw The case of a sperm donor objecting to the transfer of embryos consent? Arguably, moral questions are always open to interformed from his donation can be likened to disputes over pretation, however, until recently in Victoria, Australia, so too frozen embryos, where the sperm provider and the egg provider was the legal question. This ar...