Informed Consent - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Trends and determinants of end-of-life practices in ALS in the Netherlands.

20 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: In the Netherlands, the proportion of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who choose the option of euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is relatively high (20%). The objective of this study was to determine which ... Read more...

"Universal Precautions": perinatal touch and examination after childhood sexual abuse.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Childhood sexual abuse is a common experience of Australian women with 1 woman in 3 reporting unwanted sexual activity, and 1 in 10 reporting attempted or penetrative sexual abuse before 16 years of age. The objective of this study was ... Read more...

A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men.

29 Jun 2009 INTRODUCTION: Health communication interventions have been modestly effective for increasing informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among African-American men; however, knowledge and informed decision making is still questionable ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Informed Consent - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Permanent sterilization of mentally disabled individuals: a case study. 30 Oct 2009
• Trends and determinants of end-of-life practices in ALS in the Netherlands. 20 Sep 2009
• "Universal Precautions": perinatal touch and examination after childhood sexual abuse. 30 Aug 2009
• [5/7. Cesarean section refusal] 30 Jul 2009
• A comparison of a spiritually based and non-spiritually based educational intervention for informed decision making for prostate cancer screening among church-attending African-American men. 29 Jun 2009
• Reasons for enrollment, the informed consent process, and trust among low-income women participating in a community-based participatory research study. 29 Jun 2009
• Responding to trust: surgeons' perspective on informed consent. 29 Jun 2009
• [The preoperative anaesthetic visit] 29 Jun 2009
• Informed consent in high-risk renal transplant recipients. 30 May 2009
• What do prospective research participants want to know? What do they assume they know already? 30 May 2009
• Research ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry. 30 May 2009
• Who will participate in acute stroke trials? 10 May 2009
• Under what conditions do patients want to be informed about their risk of a complication? A vignette study. 29 Apr 2009
• Consenting to research is more than a contractual agreement-it is a personal commitment. 29 Apr 2009
• Capacity to make treatment decisions in Chinese older persons with very mild dementia and mild Alzheimer disease. 29 Apr 2009
• More information, less understanding: a randomized study on consent issues in neonatal research. 29 Apr 2009
• Value of informed consent in surgical orthodontics. 29 Apr 2009
• Gene therapy and informed consent decision making: nursing research directions. 24 Apr 2009
• A structurational analysis of informed consent to treatment: (re)productions of contradictory sociohistorical structures in practitioners' interpretive schemes. 11 Apr 2009
• The ethics surrounding HIV, kidney donation and patient confidentiality. 30 Mar 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)