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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 ...

The FDA issued “Informed Consent Guidance for IRBs, Clinical Investigators, and Sponsors” that supersedes its 1998 guidance and finalizes its 2014 guidance. The guidance outlines the primary ...

Anesthesiologists and surgeons are increasingly caught in high‑stakes perioperative situations where the law and the facts ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Informed consent may be defined as the process whereby a patient is provided with sufficient and accurate information about the benefits and risks of a proposed course of therapy or procedure, to ...

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 ...

(Reuters Health) - Cancer patients usually get written consent forms to sign before radiation that are supposed to clearly spell out the treatment risks, but a new U.S. study suggests these forms are ...