On April 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released new guidance which requires hospitals to obtain informed consent from patients before practitioners, or medical or ...

We are told that the rest of the world envies the fairness, which we are sustaining with our commitment to inclusive public-informed consent. But we have pretty much forgotten all about that ...

Camille Nebeker, EdD, MS, a professor at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity ...

In recent years, Michigan has been home to two of the largest sexual abuse scandals involving doctors in history: the sexual abuse committed by Larry Nassar while employed by Michigan State University ...

Informed consent is a fundamental component of modern healthcare and represents a patient's right to understand and agree to a medical procedure, treatment or study. True informed consent empowers ...

Failure to obtain informed consent can result in significant consequences Exceptions to informed consent apply only in limited circumstances Elements of valid informed consent include patient capacity ...

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 ...

Additionally, the patient must be informed of feasible alternative therapies. The two legal claims are distinct, and a physician can be sued for malpractice, a type of negligence, for failing to ...

The bill would require VA providers to follow the same informed‑consent protocols for psychiatric medications.

"If only the doctor had warned me of this terrible complication, I never would have agreed to his treatment." When a patient has a poor outcome, that statement is typically the basis for a malpractice ...

The principle of respect for persons demands that participants enter the research voluntarily and with adequate information. When deceptive methodologies are used, participants are given incomplete or ...