It can be a rewarding experience to participate in research studies that offer many potential personal, medical, and financial benefits. However, if you are new to or are not entirely familiar with ...

I’m a senior physician with both clinical and clinical research experience. Before this year, I had undergone bilateral total hip replacements and a right total shoulder replacement. (As a younger man ...

New research published in Psychology & Sexuality indicates that as women with previous experiences of nonconsensual sex grow ...

The federal regulations for the protection of human subjects (Common Rule) were revised effective January 20, 2019 to reduce administrative burdens for low-risk research while enhancing protections ...

The principle of respect for persons demands that participants enter the research voluntarily and with adequate information. When deceptive methodologies are used, participants are given incomplete or ...

Informed consent (IC) is a fundamental aspect of ethical clinical research, safeguarding the rights and well-being of participants. It empowers participants with comprehensive information about the ...

A consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) has become the first midwife within the organisation to be ...

Informed consent documents explain to potential participants the information that a reasonable person would want to have in order to make an informed decision about whether to participate. Using this ...

Potential research subjects must be accurately informed of what a project involves, and given the opportunity to decide of their own free will whether or not to participate. This process may be brief ...

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 ...

Exempt research does not require the informed consent to be documented (it is at the discretion of the researcher), but the Bowdoin IRB does expect that informed consent be provided to the ...

It is the policy of Western Michigan University that all research involving human subjects will be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board. The involvement of human subjects in research is not ...