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11021Background: Ensuring that patients understand the information in an Informed Consent Form (ICF) is key to shared decision-making and ethical conduct of a trial. Data regarding patients’ views ...
Informed consent is a model that can guide how healthcare professionals deliver gender affirming hormone therapy. Learn how it works here.
Warning! Sweeping changes in public health are on the rise. The latest word, according to Stat, is that the Department of Health and Human Services directed the CDC to curtail vaccine advertising and ...
Giving people an uncontextualized list of possible vaccine side effects is not the kind of "informed consent" worth promoting.
This piece explores how informed content strategies can empower the adoption and understanding of XR technologies across healthcare industries.
A new state law requires schools to obtain verbal or written consent from parents before providing nonemergency medical treatment or counseling.
Activists concerned about the program's impact on Black and Latino students say the form lacks key information needed for fully informed consent.
While past standards required red tape and therapist's letters, informed consent models for HRT are based around your education and understanding of your gender.
NOTE: Templates for the short form consent document and the English-language consent document (to be used for the “summary”) are available in the researcher library in IRBNet. Short Form Informed ...
Trial sponsors have struggled to improve trial diversity. Homing in on informed consent may be the key to changing that—with the welcome side effect of empowering patients to participate in ...
BOSTON — Massachusetts teaching hospitals and medical institutions must obtain written informed consent before any sensitive and intimate examination, including breast, rectal, prostate, and ...