"Informed consent" sets a goal for investigators experimenting with human subjects, but little is known about how to achieve or evaluate it in an experiment. In a 3-year, double-blind study with incarcerated men, we attempted to provide a "free and informed consent" and evaluated our efforts with an unannounced questionnaire administered to subjects after they completed the experiment. At that ...

IN HIS PERSPECTIVE “HOMO EXPERIMENTALIS EVOLVES” (11 JULY, P. 207), J. A. LIST PROUDLY acknowledges that economists perform experiments on human subjects without notifying them: “[I]n a natural f ield experiment, the analyst manipulates experimental conditions in a natural manner, whereby the experimental subjects are unaware that they are participating in an experiment. This approach combines ...

This Essay explains why and how the Roman Catholic basis for informed consent is different from the secular basis. It argues that the Catholic basis, which is rooted in “natural law,” is the better model for society to adopt. The author explains that the secular view is rooted in the belief that patient autonomy must never be violated but the Catholic view is based on human dignity, which simpl...

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...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the written explanation given to patients when obtaining informed consent for oral surgery, taking the surgical extraction of the impacted mandibular third molar as the clinical model for this study. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study included 87 patients requiring surgical extraction of an impacted lower third molar. Residents of the Oral Surgery Department...

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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...