Improving the consent rate for solid organ donation from deceased donors is a key component of strategies in the UK and other countries to increase the availability of organs for transplantation. In the UK, the law is currently clear on what forms consent may take, with the views of the individual expressed previously in life taking priority. Such views may have been expressed prospectively, vi...

FCS 840 Community, Societal, and International Research 3(3,0) Covers issues and methods of community, societal, and international research and evaluation; macro-level assessment of the impact of interventions and the documentation of change; multi-method etic and emic strategies, theory-based evaluation, longitudinal designs, and collaborative, consultative models of research. Preq: PSYCH 810,...

The recent research and technology development in medical genomics has raised new issues that are profoundly different from those encountered in traditional clinical research for which informed consent was developed. Global initiatives for international collaboration and public participation in genomics research now face an increasing demand for new forms of informed consent which reflect local...

OBJECTIVE To study the awareness of 'Informed Consent', among patients presenting to Family Physicians. METHOD A cross-sectional study was carried out at the Community Health Centre, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi in July 2002. Written Consent was taken and confidentially was assured RESULTS Out of the 100 patients interviewed, 80 agreed to participate in the study, forty-four men an...