Patient consent to medical treatment has been a subject of concern within the United States
professional communities for over two decades. This paper traces the development of …

Informed consent is one of the most important ethical and legal principles in the United
States, including Texas, and reflects a profound respect for individuals and their ability to …

Ethicists and the medicolegal system agree that patients have rights to information prior to
an elective medical procedure. Yet, it is far from clear whether there is at the present time an …

Over the past 25 years, obtaining informed consent for the performance of many medical
procedures has become part of the practice of medicine. As opposed to the “duty to warn” …

This article explores the neglected dimensions of informed consent. In such documents as
the Code of Federal Regulations that govern clinical research, it is explicitly stated that …

Substantial efforts have recently been made to reform the physician-patient relationship,
particularly toward replacing thesilent world of doctor and patient'with informed patient …

Sugarman et al discuss their retrieval of published empirical research on informed consent
as part of an effort to ensure that patients and research subjects within the Veterans Affairs …

Until about thirty years ago, the extent of disclosure about and consent-seeking for medical
interventions was influenced by a beneficence model of professional behaviour. Informed …

Informed consent is at the heart of shared decision making—a recommended approach to
medical treatment decision in which patients actively participate with their doctors. Patients …

One of the most important aspects of the relationship between a physician and a patient is
what the physician tells, or does not tell, the patient. It follows, then, that the motive—the …