With passage and implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, more vulnerable
segments of the US population will now have access to regular health care and increased …

Background Informed consent as stipulated in regulatory human research guidelines
requires that a volunteer is well-informed about what will happen to them in a trial. However …

Concerns regarding the ethics of research involving human subjects have evolved over the
past decades. The issue of how to implement informed consent in developing countries has …

Background The role of consent for research use of health information is contentious. Most
discussion has focused on when project-specific consent may be waived but, recently, a …

Since its inception as an international requirement to protect patients and healthy volunteers
taking part in medical research, informed consent has become the primary consideration in …

The current ethical and regulatory framework for research is often charged with burdening
investigators and impeding socially valuable research. To address these concerns, a …

This case study is one of a series demonstrating ethical dilemmas in medicine, science, the
social sciences, and public policy. Although the case is based on fact, it has been edited to …

In this paper we examine the application of informed consent to ethnographic research in
health care settings. We do not quarrel with either the principle of informed consent or its …

Background Informed consent is an ethical and legal requirement for research involving
human participants. However, few studies have evaluated the process, particularly in Africa …