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- The problem is that informed consent is not always possible. There are some contexts in which the nature of the information is such that the patient’s understanding and capacity for decision making are overwhelmed, making informed consent impossible.
journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/limits-informed-consent-overwhelmed-patient-clinicians-role-protecting-patients-and-preventing/2016-09The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient ...
Informed consent is fundamental to the ethical and legal doctrines respecting research participants’ voluntary participation in clinical research, enshrined in such documents as the 1947 Nuremberg Code; reaffirmed in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 1975, and the 1978 Belmont Report; and codified in the United States in the 1981 ...
- Stefan C Grant
- 2021
The effective procurement of informed consent promotes patient autonomy, engenders trust and confidence in medical professionals, and reduces the risk of unnecessary legal claims premised on incorrect assumptions regarding appropriate medical care.
- Joshua B. Murphy
- 2008
Mar 2, 2017 · Informed consent as a process that serves to respect autonomous choices and protect people from risks is not “one size fits all” and should be tailored to context.
Informed consent means different things in different contexts, is variably practised and rarely achieves the theoretical ideal. Simple consent entails that a patient (or surrogate) with decision-making capacity freely authorizes a treatment plan aimed at a mutually acknowledged treatment goal.
Apr 14, 2024 · In this article, I herein discuss three major challenges to informed consent in clinical practice: (1) patient literacy and sociocultural factors, (2) psychiatric illnesses and elderly patients with cognitive impairment and (3) artificial intelligence in clinical care, and sought to offer practical mitigating strategies to address these barriers.
There are cases in which informed consent is from the outset not possible because of informational overload, in which no amount of bulwarking against being informationally or emotionally overwhelmed can facilitate reaching true informed consent.
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Thus, informed consent is already perceived to be an imperfect instrument of protection—even in regular medicine—and some have proposed abandoning the concept. The latest challenge to informed consent, and perhaps the most serious set of problems, comes from the development of various DNA databases.