STATOpinion

Patients shouldn’t be pressured to ‘just check that box’ on informed consent forms

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

These trans advocates say new informed consent forms for patients are transphobic and inaccurate

The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine recently released six new informed consent forms that will now be required for transgender youth and adults to sign in the next six months to ...
William & Mary

Informed Consent Forms and Process

Informed consent is more than just a form; it is a process that actively involves the participant. It is an "ongoing exchange of information between the investigator and [participant]" per the OHRP.
Science Daily

Informed-consent forms should be shortened, simplified, bioethicists say

An in-depth review of consent forms provided to volunteers for HIV/AIDS research in the United States and abroad about study procedures, risks and benefits has found that the forms were extremely long ...

CDC Unveils ‘Informed Consent’ Policy On COVID Vaccines

CDC says blanket recommendations of the past stopped a frank discussion of individual risks and benefits between patients and ...
Hope College

Informed Consent Guidelines

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 ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Readability Standards for Informed-Consent Forms as Compared with Actual Readability

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...
Nature

Physician counseling, informed consent and parental decision making for infants with hypoplastic left-heart syndrome

Until the development in 1980 by William Norwood of a staged palliative surgical procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HPLHS), there was no treatment for that condition. With medical ...
Nature

Development of a tiered and binned genetic counseling model for informed consent in the era of multiplex testing for cancer susceptibility

Multiplex genetic testing, including both moderate- and high-penetrance genes for cancer susceptibility, is associated with greater uncertainty than traditional testing, presenting challenges to ...
Insurancenewsnet.com

Reports from Department of Plastic Surgery Highlight Recent Findings in Patient Counseling (A Decade of Litigation Regarding Surgical Informed Consent In the Netherlands)

2019 MAR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily-- Investigators discuss new findings in Health and Medicine - Patient Counseling. According to news ...
Stars and Stripes

House bill would require veterans to sign a consent form to get prescriptions for drugs with risk of addiction, bad side effects

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 ...