Informed consent is a vital part of healthcare, ensuring that patients understand their treatment options and can make ...

Informed consent has been defined as "an individual's autonomous authorization of a medical intervention or of participation in research". [1] In professional and legal regulations it is widely ...

Human clinical trials are the final stage of research for any new medical treatment. Medical breakthroughs rely on willing participation from people who agree to be part of the studies. Joining a ...

Obtaining the informed consent of a potential human subject for participation in any research (whether an experiment, survey, interview, or demonstration) is a federally mandated safeguard for ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a patient’s comfort and safety. Some people, however, are sounding the alarm about what they believe to be a major blind spot: the lack of informed ...

Influenza-related GBS is 17x higher than the risks of GBS from vaccines. Informed Consent Requirements Should Not Be a Scare Tactic STAT writes, “Kennedy wants future vaccine communications to focus ...

The changes follow recommendations made by the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) last month, and are ...

Just because someone decides not to participate in a research project doesn't necessarily mean that they fundamentally object to taking part, a study published online in BMC Health Services Research ...