BACKGROUND Paediatric clinical research faces unique challenges that compromise optimal recruitment of children into clinical trials. A main barrier to enrolment of children is parental misconceptions about the research process. In developing countries, there is a knowledge gap regarding parental perceptions of and attitudes towards their children's participation in clinical trials. OBJECTIVE...

OBJECTIVE To explore parental opinions regarding opt-out consent for inpatient pediatric prospective observational research in the US. STUDY DESIGN A series of handouts describing hypothetical observational research studies with opt-out consent were reviewed by parents of hospitalized children. A verbal survey explored parental opinions about the proposed consent process. RESULTS A total of...

INTRODUCTION • 2 I. THE REMARKABLE CASE OF JOHN/JOAN • 5 II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SURGICAL STANDARD OF CARE • 12 A. Standards of Care Within the Medical Community • 12 B. The Surgical Standard in Treatment ofAmbiguous Genitalia . 16 C. Standard Care and Malpractice Claims 27 III. PARENTAL CONSENT TO GENITAL SURGERY AND SEX REASSIGNMENT ON BEHALF OF CHILDREN • 34 A. The Doctrine of Informed Cons...

Background The requirement for written parental consent school-based human papillomavirus vaccination programme in England can act as a barrier to uptake some young women, with the potential exacerbate health inequities. Aims To consider practicalities and implications of implementing new procedures, including telephone adolescent self-consent, two local authority areas southwest England. Metho...

Background: Informed consent is an ethical practice that should be guaranteed before a child is involved in a research. The position of the child in research has also become a subject of debate with regards to ethics. Though many countries may have unique provisions for conducting research with children, it is the goal of every regulatory mechanism to guarantee the autonomy, rights and protecti...

OBJECTIVE We report the findings from and comment on the surveys of the oral health of 5-year-old children undertaken in Scotland (2013-14), Wales (2014-15) and England (2014-15). This was the fourteenth survey in Scotland since 1988. In England and Wales it is the third survey since 2007 when changes were required in consent arrangements. METHOD Representative samples were drawn within Healt...