Informed Consent - Ethics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research.

29 Nov 2009 Clinical research is a systematic investigation of human biology, health, or illness involving human beings. It builds on laboratory and animal studies and often involves clinical trials, which are specifically designed to test the safety and ... Read more...

A trial of consent procedures for future research with clinically derived biological samples.

27 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The aims of this study were to determine which consent procedure patients prefer for use of stored tissue for research purposes and what the effects of consent procedures on actual consenting behaviour are. METHODS: We offered 264 cancer ... Read more...

Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards.

31 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Assessment of capacity to consent to treatment is an important legal and ethical issue in daily medical practice. In this study we carefully evaluated the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to an acute medical ward ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Informed Consent - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Science, technology, and innovation: nursing responsibilities in clinical research. 29 Nov 2009
• [Medical information: the duty to inform lies with the physician] 27 Oct 2009
• [Information from foreign patients. Decision of the German Supreme Court from May 8, 2008] 19 Oct 2009
• Consent in emergency and resuscitation research. 29 Sep 2009
• Consent: a need for guidelines to reflect local considerations. 29 Sep 2009
• A trial of consent procedures for future research with clinically derived biological samples. 27 Sep 2009
• Consent for biobank tissue in somatic-cell nuclear transfer. 10 Sep 2009
• Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards. 31 Aug 2009
• Government-scripted consent: when medical ethics and law collide. 30 Aug 2009
• Rethinking the ethics of vital organ donations. 30 Aug 2009
• And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead. 30 Aug 2009
• 'Undercover nurse' struck off the professional register for misconduct. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical problems observed by student nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• Protecting raw data and psychological tests from wrongful disclosure: a primer on the law and other persuasive strategies. 30 Aug 2009
• Informed recruitment in partner studies of HIV transmission: an ethical issue in couples research. 25 Aug 2009
• Informed consent is more than a patient's signature. 25 Aug 2009
• Impact of social stigma on the process of obtaining informed consent for genetic research on podoconiosis: a qualitative study. 20 Aug 2009
• Common consent. 18 Aug 2009
• Ethical issues relating the the banking of umbilical cord blood in Mexico. 12 Aug 2009
• [Circumcision for boys incapable of giving informed consent] 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Informed Consent'

Definition: Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.

Descriptor UI: D007258

Alternative terms: Informed Consent; Consent, Informed;

Related Mesh Headings: Treatment Refusal; Mental Competency; Disclosure;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; standards;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.473.650.718; I01.880.604.583.427; N03.706.437.650.312; N03.706.535.489;

History Note: 73(71)

Technical Notes: competency to consent: coord IM with MENTAL COMPETENCY (IM)