Valid consent – A pathway to improved care

Valid consent: determining the minor's ability to make decisions.

Deferred proxy consent in emergency critical care research: ethically valid and practically feasible.

Important ethical aspects apply to the process of obtaining consent in emergency critical care research: the incapacity of almost all patients for giving informed consent and the emergency and life-threatening nature of the conditions involved, resulting in short therapeutic time frames. We argue that deferred proxy consent is the preferable substitute for informed patient consent in emergency ...

Doctor, are you experienced? The relevance of disclosure of physician experience to a valid informed consent.

Valid Consent for Genomic Epidemiology in Developing Countries

G enomic research has the potential to improve global health by elucidating basic mechanisms of disease, susceptibility, and resistance, thereby guiding the development of preventive interventions [1]. Recently developed methods for exploring how human genetic variation affects resistance are likely to provide strategic clues about vaccine development for researchers working on malaria, HIV, tu...

Guideline for obtaining valid consent for gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures.

Much has changed since the last guideline of 2008, both in endoscopy and in the practice of obtaining informed consent, and it is vital that all endoscopists who are responsible for performing invasive and increasingly risky procedures are aware of the requirements for obtaining valid consent. This guideline is restricted to GI endoscopy but we cover elective and acute or emergency procedures. ...