Informed Consent

Authors: Bravo, Gina ; Dubois, Marie-France ; Paquet, Mariane
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: Focuses on the growth in the number of individuals suffer from diseases that impair the decision-making capacity. Efforts of researchers to identify the causes of the diseases; Recognition of ethical dilemma that arises in conductin...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:15

Authors: Appelbaum, Paul S. ; Lidz, Charles W. ; Klitzman, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article discusses the study that was designed to develop comprehensive approach in assessing voluntariness of consent to research and to generate data on the extent and correlates of limitations on voluntariness across diverse a...
Year: 2009

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:14

Authors: Albala, Ilene ; Appelbaum, Paul S. ; Doyle, Margaret
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article presents results from a study that examined the changes in the accuracy and the page length of research consent forms over 25 years. The study found that changes in the consent form page length and in the descriptions of...
Year: 2010

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:14

Authors: Allen, Michael D.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: Focuses on the significance of the human tissues and fluids in various genetic research in California. Development of a valuable cell line; Analysis on the blood samples of the patients; Details on the purpose of the research....
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:14

Authors: Brown, Joseph S. ; Schonfeld, Toby L. ; Gordon, Bruce C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: This article presents information on the payment of human subjects to participate in research. Payment to human subjects still remains an unresolved ethical issue facing Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). According to an informal s...
Year: 2006

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:16

Authors: Naik, Rupali ; Warren, Stuart R. ; Segal, Alissa R. ; Sather, Mike R. ; Raisch, Dennis W. ; Campbell, Heather M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article presents a study that examined the effect of a clinical trial information handbook on patient's knowledge, perceptions, and likelihood of participation. It states that the participants who read clinical information handb...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:16

Authors: Henderson, Gail E. ; Davis, Arlene M. ; Easter, Michele M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article examines how researchers keep their promise of confidentiality and how that promise is sometimes challenged during primary data collection. It is noted that researchers promise confidentiality because their purpose is to...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:17

Authors: Baochong, G. A. O. ; Smith, Karen ; Min-Fu, Tsan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article discusses research participant protection programs within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The protection of human subjects in research has been a priority of institutional review boards (IRBs) and the U.S. ...
Year: 2010

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:23

Authors: Carpenter, William T. ; Conley, Robert R. ; Prentice, Kristen J. ; Appelbaum, Paul S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article presents medical studies in maintaining the validity of informed consent during lengthy research protocol. A study reveals that the continuing validity of informed consent will depend on the participant's knowledge of th...
Year: 2007

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:24

Authors: Misra, Sahana ; Rosenstein, Donald ; Socherman, Robert ; Ganzini, Linda
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article presents a review of research on the decisional capacity of patients with mental health disorders, discusses how mania characteristics may affect research participation and provides recommendations for investigators and ...
Year: 2010

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:23

Authors: Rector, Thomas S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article focuses on the potential risks of research participation during the informed consent process and the identification of adverse effects to potential research subjects. It determined several contextual factors that can con...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:25

Authors: Forster-Gertner, Heidi P. ; Pace, Christine A. ; Sabik, Lindsay ; Wendler, David ; Tavel, Jorge A. ; Bebchuk, Judith D. ; McNay, Laura A. ; Killen, Jack ; Emanuel, Ezekiel J. ; Grady, Christine
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article focuses on a survey of multinational sample of investigators, which determines how much time they dedicate to the consent process, what aspects of the clinical trials they emphasize during the consent process, and what t...
Year: 2005

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:26

Authors: Taylor, Holly A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article focuses on the procedural requirements of the U.S. federal regulations which are designed protecting human subjects in research studies in the U.S. It also discusses the ethical quality in enhancing the supervision of hu...
Year: 2007

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:27

Authors: Dunn, Laura B. ; Palmer, Barton W. ; Spira, Adam P. ; Sheikh, Javaid I. ; Cassidy, Erin L.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article demonstrates a systematic approach to the informed consent process with potential research participants, in such a way that it allows for checking and correction of insufficient understood elements and that it could be e...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:24

Authors: Wilson, Donna M. ; Norton, Karleen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article focuses on the significant role of research ethics boards (REBs) in reviewing the proposed research studies that evaluate the ethical and regulatory requirements governing research with humans. These include the determin...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:24

Authors: Speroff, Ted ; Churchill, Larry ; Black, Margo ; Hedstrom, Christa ; Byrne, Daniel W. ; Pichert, James W. ; Murff, Harvey J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article presents information about the safety of private information of research participants and systems factors involved in clinical research centers. A research conducted by the journal reveals that a comprehensive human rese...
Year: 2006

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:24

Authors: Rosenwasser, Beth J. ; Marlowe, Douglas B. ; Dugosh, Karen L. ; Festinger, David S. ; Croft, Jason R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: The article reports on the payment incentives to compensate participants for their time and effort in a drug abuse research in the U.S. It is stated that the scheme has increased their participation in the research by encouraging th...
Year: 2007

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:16

Authors: Morreim, E. Haavi
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: IRB: Ethics & Human Research
Abstract: Explores the diversity in the meaning of "patient advocate," who is responsible for assuring that the prospective clinical trial enrollees understand the risks and benefits of the research study. Patient advocate outside the clinica...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-09-28 14:23

Authors: Schrag, Brian
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Dr. Edwards has developed an electronic database to manage patient records. He is beginning to use the database as a research tool, but his patients have never consented to having their data used for research purposes. ...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/paper.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case discusses issues of research subjects' informed and voluntary consent, specifically whether participants must be recontacted and provide a second consent specific to the new study or whether the case author simply assumes ...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/share.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case highlights potential dilemmas encountered by postdoctoral fellows in a research setting. Does the promise of a U.S. standard of medical care undermine informed consent in foreign based studies? It also explores the issues ...
Year: 2001
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/cultural.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Research on the effects of stressful environments involves interviewing fourth, sixth, and eighth graders in a parochial school. The principle investigator wants to proceed without contacting parents. Two years into the study the re...
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/longitudinal.aspx

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Three short cases explore deception of subjects in social science research. In each case the principle investigator is a social psychologist....
Year: 1997
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/justify.aspx

Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about the ethical issues that arise when a patient wishes to withdraw from a clinical study and the researcher disputes the patient's competency....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/withdraw.aspx

Authors: Youngner, Stuart
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A scenario meant to stimulate discussion about the ethical issues that arise when a researcher is unsure if a study participant is too incapacitated to actually give informed consent....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/whencons.aspx