There has been an increased focus over the past couple of years on patient rights, resulting in a renewed emphasis on informed consent by healthcare regulators, such as The Joint Commission. This ...

Thank you for reminding the research and scholarly community of the fundamental importance of striving to obtain each subject’s true informed consent prior to her or his participation in research ...

The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine recently released six new informed consent forms that will now be required for transgender youth and adults to sign in the next six months to ...

Informed consent is more than just a form; it is a process that actively involves the participant. It is an "ongoing exchange of information between the investigator and [participant]" per the OHRP.

An in-depth review of consent forms provided to volunteers for HIV/AIDS research in the United States and abroad about study procedures, risks and benefits has found that the forms were extremely long ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Informed consent forms for interventional oncology clinical trials are often lengthy and written at too high of ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

Informed consent is an agreement between the investigators and the research participants. A signed informed consent form notifies potential research participants of their obligations and rights, and ...

Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

Achieving informed consent requires a potential contributor to be in possession of sufficient knowledge about our plans for a reasoned decision to take part in our content. The Editorial Guidelines ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

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 ...