Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Patients who received personalized consent forms before angioplasty or stent implantation better ...

To improve patient consent form comprehension, researchers have developed approaches to simplify the process by focusing on the information that patients need most when deciding whether to enroll in a ...

It's time patient consent forms came back full circle to a tool for patient education, rather than the waiver of liability they have become. The original purpose of the consent forms was for a surgeon ...

New patient consent forms in Germany cover the use of patient care data and clinical and biomedical research. German Data Protection Commission DSK has approved a revised version of forms that the ...

At that point, your options were to cancel and reschedule, perform the endoscopy without taking a biopsy, or wake the patient ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

In medical experiments on human beings, every patient must sign an “informed consent” form acknowledging the risks, and researchers are required to keep track of those statements. But the doctors who ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

When patients participate in a clinical trial, they are required -- for legal and ethical reasons -- to complete consent forms that are typically long, complicated and filled with technical language.