Enduring and Emerging Challenges of Informed Consent

The author summarizes emerging standards for informed consent as the underpinning of ethical research in humans. Informed consent is a widely accepted legal, ethical, and regulatory requirement for most research and health care transactions. Nonetheless, the practice of informed consent varies by co...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 372; no. 9; pp. 855 - 862
Main Author Grady, Christine
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 26.02.2015
Subjects
Bioethical Issues
Delivery of Health Care - ethics
Demography
Ethics, Research
Human subjects
Humans
Informed consent
Informed Consent - ethics
Informed Consent - legislation & jurisprudence
Medical ethics
Medical research
Mental Competency
Population Dynamics
United States
United States
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Summary:The author summarizes emerging standards for informed consent as the underpinning of ethical research in humans. Informed consent is a widely accepted legal, ethical, and regulatory requirement for most research and health care transactions. Nonetheless, the practice of informed consent varies by context, and the reality often falls short of the theoretical ideal. Contemporary developments in health care and clinical research call for renewed efforts to address the enduring and emerging challenges of informed consent, such as what information should be disclosed, how it should be disclosed, how much the persons providing consent should understand, and how explicit consent should be. The moral force of consent is not unique to health care or research. Integral to . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMra1411250