Although exempt research is exempt from some of the federal regulations, in most cases of interaction with participants, a consent process is indicated. It’s important to understand that even though ...

Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulations for the protection of human participants require that informed consent information be presented in language understandable to the participant ...

Canadian researchers have published new guidelines intended to make consent forms used in clinical research easier for patients to understand. The guidelines describe 75 core elements for consent ...

The goal of the informed consent process is to ensure that the research subject is treated with respect and human dignity. The process does this by safeguarding and advocating for the subject's right ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“prejudice,” and “negligence” may not roll off the tongue in daily conversation. But university researchers often include such terms in the consent forms given to people who are asked to volunteer as ...

Purpose: Complex and sometimes controversial information must be conveyed during the consent process for participation in biorepositories, and studies suggest that consent documents in general are ...

When submitting a project through the eIRB system, researchers can request either a waiver of the need for signatures/documentation, or a waiver to alter or omit the entire consent process. In either ...