While many people indicate “I have read and agree to the terms and conditions”, very few actually take the time to read through everything to truly understand the small print. One journalist estimates ...

The majority of patients with stable coronary heart disease or non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE ACS) undergoing PCI believe the procedure will cure their heart disease, reduce their ...

The Nuremberg Code (1947) and the Declaration of Helsinki (1978) are credited as the origins of informed consent in clinical research. Participants' informed consent is both a legal and ethical ...

A study was carried out which aimed to investigate peoples' perceptions of how their consent was given for dental treatment. A structured questionnaire was completed by 50 patients receiving treatment ...

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 ...

The aims of ideal preoperative informed consent include educating the patient adequately to enable an autonomous decision to be made without causing undue anxiety. We study how the paternalistic and ...

Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

Health data’s potential can be vertigo-inducing, with seemingly limitless insights available to be mined from data sets old and new. The risks, too, can turn the stomach: faulty and biased algorithms; ...

In a cross-sectional study, ChatGPT demonstrated variable effectiveness in generating informed consent forms for treatment with energy-based dermatologic devices, highlighting the need for expert ...