Informed consent. Informed consent is not always obtained in United States.
1997
K Epstein, and
B Sloat
UI
MeSH Term
Description
Entries
D007258
Informed Consent
Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.
Consent, Informed
D002986
Clinical Trials as Topic
Works about pre-planned studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects. This concept includes clinical trials conducted both in the U.S. and in other countries.
Clinical Trial as Topic
D006801
Humans
Members of the species Homo sapiens.
Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D006805
Human Experimentation
The use of humans as investigational subjects.
Human Research Subject Protection,Experimentation, Human
D014481
United States
A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
December 2011,
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons,