It can be a rewarding experience to participate in research studies that offer many potential personal, medical, and financial benefits. However, if you are new to or are not entirely familiar with ...

Informed Consent Federal regulations require that researchers obtain legally effective, documented, voluntary informed consent from prospective subjects (or subjects' legally authorized ...

Informed consent (IC) is a fundamental aspect of ethical clinical research, safeguarding the rights and well-being of participants. It empowers participants with comprehensive information about the ...

Consent process tools Gaining informed consent from research participants can be achieved through a consent conference. Tools are provided within the IRBNet to aid in this process. Navigate the forms ...

What is informed consent? Simply put, it means that the research team will make sure you understand as much as possible about the trial, the risks, and the benefits of participating in the trial.

Having to obtain informed consent for the use of leftover human tissue samples could be hampering essential biobank research says a research group.

This type of review is intended to support researchers in assuring that adequate informed consent is obtained from individuals participating in their studies. The review is performed at the request of ...

What is informed consent? According to the FDA, informed consent involves providing a participant with: Adequate information to make an informed decision about participating in the clinical research.

Acute care research is sometimes conducted under Exception from Informed Consent regulations. In many life-threatening illnesses, patients are unconscious or too sick to provide written or verbal ...

As I dug into the rules governing informed consent in educational research, I was surprised to learn that parental consent often isn’t required by law.