Purpose: Federal regulations and best practice guidelines identify categories of information
that should be communicated to prospective biobank participants during the informed …

Most bioethics studies have focused on capturing the views of patients and the general
public on research ethics issues related to informed consent for biobanking and only a …

Purpose: Despite important recent work, US public attitudes toward specific biobank consent
models are not well understood. Public opinion data can help shape efforts to develop …

Purpose: To determine the individual and combined effects of a simplified form and a
review/retest intervention on biobanking consent comprehension. Methods: We conducted a …

Informed consent, the process of gathering autonomous authorization for a medical
intervention or medical research participation, is a fundamental component of medical …

Purpose Complex and sometimes controversial information must be conveyed during the
consent process for participation in biorepositories, and studies suggest that consent …

Purpose: In 2011, an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposed that de-identified
human data and specimens be included in biobanks only if patients provide consent. The …

Background As biobanks play an increasing role in the genomic research that will lead to
precision medicine, input from diverse and large populations of patients in a variety of health …

Purpose To facilitate ethically acceptable and practically successful health care–embedded
biobanking, the attitudes and understanding of patients and their motivation to participate …

Despite the increased utilization of genome and exome sequencing, little is known about the
actual content and process of informed consent for sequencing. We addressed this by …