PURPOSE To evaluate understanding of the fundamental concepts of informed consent by the public and patients. METHODS Questionnaires were distributed to any persons (aged more than 16 years) attending the Palmerston North Hospital (excluding in-patients). The first 1000 completed questionnaires were analysed using the Chi squared test. RESULTS The fundamental concepts of informed consent we...

introduction: the responsibility of the medical training team towards a patient referring to an academic medical center has not been fully clarified. in this article we have looked at current practice in medical university of isfahan and evaluated the attitude of the medical team towards patients’consent to be involved in medical students’education. methods: in this cross-sectional study, condu...

More Nuanced Informed Consent Is Not Necessarily Better Informed Consent Danielle Hornstein, Sharon Nakar, Sara Weinberger & Dov Greenbaum To cite this article: Danielle Hornstein, Sharon Nakar, Sara Weinberger & Dov Greenbaum (2015) More Nuanced Informed Consent Is Not Necessarily Better Informed Consent, The American Journal of Bioethics, 15:9, 51-53, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1062167 To lin...

INTRODUCTION Obtaining informed consent from prospective participants for research studies that include next-generation nucleotide sequencing (NGS) presents significant challenges because of the need to explain all the potential implications of participating, including the possible return of "incidental" findings, in easy-to-understand language. METHODS AND RESULTS After reviewing the consent...

Researchers utilize mobile imaging, pervasive sensing, social media, and location tracking (MISST) technologies to observe and intervene with participants in their natural environment. The use of MISST methods and tools introduces unique ethical issues due to the type and quantity of data, and produces raising new challenges around informed consent, risk assessment, and data management. Since M...

BACKGROUND Lack of proper understanding on the part of researchers about public understanding of research and informed consent will increase the potential for malpractice. As a part of a larger study on ethics and informed consent in Sri Lanka, this study aimed to ascertain the level of understanding of 'research' by exploring the views of the public and professionals. METHODS Convenience sam...

Our aim is to expand the regulative ideal governing consent. We argue that consent should not only be informed but also based on rational beliefs. We argue that holding true beliefs promotes autonomy. Information is important insofar as it helps a person to hold the relevant true beliefs. But in order to hold the relevant true beliefs, competent people must also think rationally. Insofar as inf...

BACKGROUND Obtaining a research participant's voluntary and informed consent is the bedrock of sound ethics practice. Greater inclusion of children in research has led to questions about how paediatric consent operates in practice to accord with current and emerging legal and socio-ethical issues, norms, and requirements. METHODS Employing a qualitative thematic content analysis, we examined ...

BACKGROUND Informed consent of trial participants is both an ethical and a legal requirement. When facing a decision about trial participation, potential participants are provided with information about the trial and have the opportunity to have any questions answered before their degree of 'informed-ness' is assessed, usually subjectively, and before they are asked to sign a consent form. Curr...

The current ethical and regulatory framework for research is often charged with burdening investigators and impeding socially valuable research. To address these concerns, a growing number of research ethicists argue that informed consent should be adapted to the risks of research participation. This would require less rigorous consent standards in low-risk research than in high-risk research. ...