The Revised Common Rule requires all clinical trials to post an unsigned consent form on a publicly available website. The Revised Common Rule is in effect for studies approved on or after January 21, ...

The sample consent forms are being provided to you as a tool. They contain all of the required elements of an acceptable consent form. While we strongly recommend that you follow the format that we ...

How to obtain truly informed consent for genomic sequencing in clinical practice is a long-standing topic of debate in the field. Although some research (including interviews with health professionals ...

The use of deception or incomplete disclosure limits the subject's ability to make a fully informed decision of whether to participate in the research — one of the essential ethical concerns in human ...

The language used in consent forms for people volunteering to take part in medical experiments is too difficult for most people to understand, a survey has found. Legally and ethically, participants ...