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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 ...

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 ...

Increased scrutiny of informed consent calls for further research into decision making by patients who may be at risk for impairments. We review interventions designed to improve patient understanding ...

The primary purpose of informed consent is to protect the prospective human subject. Informed consent provides the individual with the pertinent information regarding the research in which s/he is ...

Federal regulations require that researchers obtain legally effective, documented, voluntary informed consent from prospective subjects (or subjects' legally authorized representatives) before ...

The University IRB applies all Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requirements for informed consent to greater than minimal risk research: DHHS general requirements (at 45 CFR 46.116) (see ...

Informed consent is a necessary part of most medical procedures and yet people are largely unclear about its meaning and significance. It is the process whereby the detail of a medical treatment is ...