Obtaining the informed consent of a potential human subject for participation in any research (whether an experiment, survey, interview, or demonstration) is a federally mandated safeguard for ...

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 ...

Consent in the medical field is vital to ensuring a patient’s comfort and safety. Some people, however, are sounding the alarm about what they believe to be a major blind spot: the lack of informed ...

Hospitals performing pelvic and other sensitive exams for training purposes without patients’ explicit consent, including on anesthetized patients, won’t be eligible for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Artificial intelligence (AI) now enables researchers to analyze vast amounts of clinical ...

Michigan has no laws to prevent medical students from practicing invasive exams on unconscious patients. Two policy experts explain what it means.

Informed consent is integral to providing high-quality health care, yet it is too often treated as an obstacle — just a box ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans would have to provide formal, signed consent before doctors could write them prescriptions for narcotics, stimulants and anti-anxiety medicine under House legislation drawing ...

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.