The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide ...

Increasingly, medical procedures in the United States are being performed in ASCs. According to statistics released earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center ...

Conducting a successful clinical trial depends on well-designed patient recruitment procedures and retaining the research participants until the completion of the study. The participants must receive ...

Informed consent is one of the most important aspects of conducting ethical research with human participants. Respecting the autonomy of research participants, the investigator must provide complete ...

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 ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts teaching hospitals and medical institutions must obtain written informed consent before any sensitive and intimate examination, including breast, rectal, prostate, and pelvic ...

The goal of the informed consent process is to ensure that the research participant is treated with respect and human dignity. This is achieved by safeguarding and advocating for the participant's ...

I sat terrified and alone atop a gurney, awaiting the scheduled time for my cystectomy, holding a clipboard with forms to complete as the nurse rushed off to do something else. There was a box to ...

Over the last few years, reporting from across the country has revealed that in an alarming amount of hospitals, medical students perform intimate exams on patients who were unconscious or under ...

Click here to watch a short video on what is Exception From Informed Consent research. Acute care research is sometimes conducted under Exception from Informed Consent regulations. In many ...

RICHMOND, Va. – State legislators did not advance a Virginia House bill that advocates said would have provided more information to women seeking an abortion and which opponents saw as politicized and ...