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. 1997 Apr 12;314(7087):1059–1060. doi: 10.1136/bmj.314.7087.1059
Informed consent: the intricacies.
PMCID: PMC2126456 PMID: 9162269
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Subjects may be coerced into participating in studies." on page 1481c.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Consent is not always practical in emergency treatments." on page 1480a.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Minimum ethical standards should not vary among countries." on page 1479b.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Patients may not understand enough to give their informed consent." on page 1482b.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Research in patients with mental retardation poses special problems." on page 1480c.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. No one has a monopoly on deciding what is ethical." on page 1477b.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. In routine practice the consent form is a request form and informed consent is informed choice." on page 1482d.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Doctors are arrogant to think they need to debate issue of patient consent." on page 1477a.
See letter "Informed consent in medical research. Failure to publish completed randomised controlled trials is unethical in itself." on page 1481b.
See letter "Informed consent. Not seeking informed consent breaches patient's charter." in volume 315 on page 251b.
See letter "Informed consent. "Blanket" consent to trials would be a good idea." in volume 315 on page 253c.
See letter "Informed consent. British institutions collaborating in projects overseas may face dilemma." in volume 315 on page 248b.
See letter "Informed consent. Subjects may not understand concept of clinical trials." in volume 315 on page 248d.
See letter "Informed consent. Journals should require routine reporting of consent rates." in volume 315 on page 247b.
See letter "Informed consent. Rigorous studies are needed to determine values of interventions." in volume 315 on page 250c.
See letter "Informed consent. Research in pregnancy brings special considerations." in volume 315 on page 249b.
See letter "Informed consent. Trials that use Zelen's procedure should be acceptable." in volume 315 on page 251a.
See letter "Informed consent. Informed consent is not always obtained in United States." in volume 315 on page 249a.
See letter "Informed consent. Explicit guidance is required on valid exemptions for need for ethical review." in volume 315 on page 250a.
See the article "Evaluation of a stroke family care worker: results of a randomised controlled trial." on page 1071.
See the article "Informed consent in medical research. Journals should not publish research to which patients have not given fully informed consent--with three exceptions." on page 1107.
See the article "BMJ's present policy (sometimes approving research in which patients have not given fully informed consent) is wholly correct." on page 1111.