Informed consent is the direct application of the ethical principle of respect for persons. A discussion of the principle of respect for persons can be found in the Belmont Report (Part B, Section 1), ...

1. Investigators have not completed required CITI training courses/ modules. See the HRPP Required Training webpage for guidance. Note that if you have taken a CITI course elsewhere, you must ...

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 ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Informed consent is one of the primary requirements of research involving human participants. It is important to remember that informed consent is an ongoing process, not a document or single event.

Research that is exempt under 45CFR46.104 is also exempt from Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) requirements for informed consent as described under §46.116 and for documentation of ...

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 ...

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Although informed consent for clinical treatment has become a vital part of contemporary medical practice, it means different things in different contexts (Figure 1), is variably practised and rarely ...

The informed consent model of care is based on providing accurate and in-context information so that you can make the best decision about your healthcare plan. When people talk about options for ...

Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

Obtaining informed consent is more than getting a signature on a form. Informed consent is one of the primary ethical considerations underlying research with human subjects. ALL human subject research ...