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Across Florida, a troubling pattern has emerged in physician offices, surgical centers, and specialty clinics: providers are delegating the preparation of informed consent documentation to generative ...

Consent forms that people sign before participating in research are widely considered difficult to understand and sometimes inaccurate. Lack of clarity was implicated in a high-profile legal ...

Ethicists have suggested that written consent forms encourage participants in phase 1 cancer trials to expect benefit from the experimental agent and to overlook serious risks. Of 272 forms, 268 ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Patients who received personalized consent forms before angioplasty or stent implantation better ...

Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

In a cross-sectional study, ChatGPT demonstrated variable effectiveness in generating informed consent forms for treatment with energy-based dermatologic devices, highlighting the need for expert ...

Consent forms provided to volunteers for HIV/AIDS research in the United States and abroad detailing study procedures, risks and benefits are too long and use overly complex wording that hinder full ...