Obtaining informed consent is a basic ethical obligation and a legal requirement for researchers. This requirement is founded on the principle of respect for persons. Potential participants must be ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of deception or incomplete disclosure limits the subject's ability to make a fully informed decision of whether to participate in the research — one of the essential ethical concerns in human ...

Informed consent is the ethical and legal foundation that ensures respect for individual autonomy in clinical research. It requires that potential participants receive clear, comprehensible ...

Over the past 50 years, the informed consent process has become increasingly regulated and standardized, while the challenges remain persistent and hard to overcome. 8 Consent forms are increasingly ...

This article is part of a series The Conversation Africa is running on stem cell research and therapy. Read the rest of the series here. Ongoing developments in stem cell science mean that researchers ...

Fostering global data sharing that allows collaborative work on scarce and disparate resources is essential for research into rare diseases (RDs). 1 The challenges posed by new sequencing technologies ...

Substance Use Among Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer With Cognitive Impairment: An Analysis of the Project Forward Cohort Consent processes are critical for clinical care and research and may ...

The Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a one-day workshop to explore the effect of regulatory requirements on the production of written and oral health literate communications. An ad hoc committee ...

A carefully written information and consent form establishes transparency, so that participants understand the risks, benefits, and purposes of a study before they agree to contribute their data or ...

The goal of the informed consent process is to ensure that the research participant is treated with respect and human dignity. This is achieved by safeguarding and advocating for the participant's ...