Obtaining the informed consent of a potential human subject for participation in any research (whether an experiment, survey, interview, or demonstration) is a federally mandated safeguard for ...

This is the second in a series of articles that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. First up, we explored the Patient’s Bill of Rights (yes, that’s a thing!). Today ...

In their article, Smith and Mackie argue that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, even when ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Diane Omdahl is a Medicare expert who keeps her readers in the know. Anyone who has had an MRI, a surgical procedure or even a ...

Although informed consent for clinical treatment has become a vital part of contemporary medical practice, it means different things in different contexts (Figure 1), is variably practised and rarely ...

The informed consent model of care is based on providing accurate and in-context information so that you can make the best decision about your healthcare plan. When people talk about options for ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Obtaining informed consent is more than getting a signature on a form. Informed consent is one of the primary ethical considerations underlying research with human subjects. ALL human subject research ...