Woe Unto Those Who Request Consent: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Rejecting a Deceased's Anatomical Gift Because There is no Consent by the Survivors

Autonomy of Children and Adolescents in Consent to Treatment: Ethical, Jurisprudential and Legal Considerations

Autonomy is usually considered as a main principle in making decisions about individuals' health. Children and particularly adolescents have the capacity to take part in medical decision-making to some extent. For the most part the parent-doctor-child/adolescent triangle sides are essentially in agreement, but this may not be true in some cases, causing physicians to face problems attempting to...

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...

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...

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...