Informed consent for participation in studies with human subjects is a critically important aspect of clinical research, but research has shown that many potential subjects do not understand information relevant to their participation. A better understanding of factors related to participant understanding of study-related information is thus important. As part of a study to develop a new measur...

BACKGROUND Disclosure is a key element of the informed consent process. This study examines and compares the priorities for disclosure of the elements of informed consent between parents of paediatric research subjects and investigators. METHODS The study sample comprised 184 parents who had been approached for permission to allow their child to participate in a clinical anaesthesia or surger...

Multiple studies have documented major limitations in the informed consent process for the recruitment of clinical research participants. One challenging aspect of this process is successful communication of risks and benefits to potential research participants. This study explored the opinions and attitudes of informed consent experts about conveying risks and benefits to inform the developmen...

The question of whether patients should influence medical decisions, and if so how much, is not simple. Among other things, it is necessary to decide whether the patient's well-being should take precedence over respect for the patient's autonomy, or vice versa; whether or not the patient has the capacity to exercise true autonomy; what information should be furnished in order to provide the pat...

INFORMED CONSENT AND TRUST: EYAL’S ARGUMENT In our feature article, Nir Eyal attacks attempts by bioethicists including Onora O’Neill, Torbjörn Tännsjö, and Jennifer Jackson to ground the importance of informed consent in its role in safeguarding trust in medical practice (see page 437, Editor’s choice). The trustpromotion argument for informed consent, as Eyal terms it, states (1) that trust i...

Over the past third of a century, there has been a revolution in the way that health-care providers and patients make most medical decisions. Paternalism has slowly gone the way of the long-play record, and in its place has emerged a consent process in which the patient is a more fully informed and active participant. This process takes time however, and for the busy health-care provider there ...

BACKGROUND In order to make a well-considered decision and give informed consent about renal replacement therapy, potential living kidney donors and recipients should have sufficient understanding of the options and risks. PURPOSE We aimed to explore knowledge about Dialysis & Transplantation (DT) and Living Donation (LD) among prospective living kidney donors and recipients. METHODS Eighty...

Informed consent process is the cornerstone of ethics in clinical research. Obtaining informed consent from patients participating in clinical research is an important legal and ethical imperative for clinical trial researchers. Although informed consent is an important process in clinical research, its effectiveness and validity are always a concern. Issues related to understanding, comprehens...

Abstract Aims Informed consent for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy should begin at first clinic consultation. Due to time pressures, informed is often obtained on the morning of surgery time. This study aims assess whether quality and patients’ satisfaction are better in compared day surgery. Methods Retrospective review all surgeries between April June 2021. Self-administered questionnai...

An ethnographic field study about informed consent in hepatitis C clinical trials provides insight into how changes in protocol requirements and patient health status triggered the actions and decisions of researchers and human subjects during the conduct of these trials. U.S. federal guidelines recommend that informed consent should be conceptualized as more than a one-time event. Rather, a pr...