The ethics of deferred consent in times of pandemics

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers are applying to research ethics committees for deferred-consent procedures for protocols that aim either to test treatments or to obtain tissue or samples from research participants. However, the deferred-consent procedure has not been developed for...

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Published inNature medicine Vol. 26; no. 9; pp. 1328 - 1330
Main Authors van der Graaf, Rieke, Hoogerwerf, Marie-Astrid, de Vries, Martine C
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Nature Publishing Group 01.09.2020
Subjects
Analysis
Consent
COVID-19
Epidemics
Ethical aspects
Ethics
Informed consent (Medical law)
Medical ethics
Netherlands
Pandemics
Research ethics
Netherlands
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Summary:In the current COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers are applying to research ethics committees for deferred-consent procedures for protocols that aim either to test treatments or to obtain tissue or samples from research participants. However, the deferred-consent procedure has not been developed for pandemics. In this Comment, we interpret existing guidance documents and argue when and under which conditions deferred consent can be considered ethically acceptable in a pandemic.
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ISSN:1078-8956
1546-170X
DOI:10.1038/s41591-020-0999-9