Smith and Mackie’s feature article addresses the worry that vaccine mandates—for example, requiring employees to get the ...

In their paper arguing that vaccine mandates do not impair the voluntariness of informed consent, Smith and Mackie draw on Kiener’s recent work on the ethics of third-party coercion.1 2 Kiener’s work ...

In her Health Affairs Blog post last fall, Sharon Brownlee lamented how frequently patients agree to treatments that they know little about. In the United States and elsewhere, clinicians have a clear ...

Although informed consent for clinical treatment has become a vital part of contemporary medical practice, it means different things in different contexts (Figure 1), is variably practised and rarely ...

Achieving informed consent requires a potential contributor to be in possession of sufficient knowledge about our plans for a reasoned decision to take part in our content. The Editorial Guidelines ...

The Department of Health (DOH) recently announced that it will only inform vaccine recipients of the brand of COVID-19 vaccine at the vaccination center. It assured us, however, that consent will ...

Informed consent represents one of the most important ethical aspects of clinical treatments and scientific research involving humans. This article will discuss the key elements of informed consent ...

Obtaining informed consent is a basic ethical obligation and a legal requirement for researchers. This requirement is founded on the principle of respect for persons. Potential participants must be ...

Informed consent may be defined as the process whereby a patient is provided with sufficient and accurate information about the benefits and risks of a proposed course of therapy or procedure, to ...

The informed consent model of care is based on providing accurate and in-context information so that you can make the best decision about your healthcare plan. When people talk about options for ...