Medical professionals need to express their support for child advocacy programs to ensure that medical care is free from coercion and undue influences and is actually in the best interest of the child.
Misdirections of informed consent in low-risk research can compromise the validity of the research.
Noninferiority and superiority trials entail different benefit-harm trade-offs that must be conveyed for ethical informed consent.
The law surrounding informed consent has evolved from asking what a reasonable surgeon would have disclosed to focusing on what a reasonable patient would have wanted to know.
Despite being a relatively new concept in the US, informed consent of study participants in medical research is ethically essential.
Patients who meet the criteria for informed and patient-centered decisions have better overall quality of life.
