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Patient consent forms should educate not intimidate
Dec 17, 2008 |
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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 or doctor to inform ...
Doctors should disclose off-label prescribing to their patients
Nov 11, 2008 |
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Doctors should be required to disclose when they are prescribing drugs off-label, argues a new article in this week's PLoS Medicine. Michael Wilkes and Margaret Johns from the University of California Davis argue that the et ...
Genetic research using human samples requires new types of informed consent
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Genetic studies involving the long term storage and study of human samples hold great promise for medical research—but they also pose new threats to individuals such as uninsurability, unemployability, and discrimination, ...
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Intimate examinations should not be performed without consent
Jun 20, 2008 |
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[B]Editorial: Informed consent and intimate examinations[/B] Intimate examinations, performed by medical students on anaesthetised patients, are often carried out without adequate consent from patients, but this violates the ...
Ways to improve informed consent are testable, study says
Jan 11, 2008 |
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New ways to make sure people are adequately informed about the risks and benefits of taking part in a clinical trial can be field-tested for effectiveness as vigorously as new medical treatments themselves, a study led by ...
New guidance on patient consent lacks substance, says expert
Jun 06, 2008 |
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Proposals to overhaul the approach to obtaining patient consent lack detail, contain advice that is non-specific, and might prevent doctors from making major changes to their practice warns an editorial in this week's BMJ.
Kidney transplant consent forms may contribute to disparities
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Kidney transplant consent forms are often written at a level that makes it difficult for many kidney patients to fully understand them, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's ...
Patients being discharged against medical advice
Mar 09, 2009 |
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When patients choose to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge, the consequences may involve risk of inadequately treated medical conditions and the need for readmission, according to a review ...
Human Tissue Act may have helped research, says study
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Fears that medical research using tissue such as blood or material from biopsies would be obstructed by the Human Tissue Act 2004 may have been unfounded, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.
Feds want HIV tests to become routine
May 08, 2006 |
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Federal officials are reportedly planning to recommend U.S. physicians provide routine HIV testing for all of their patients ages 13 to 64.
Should breast tissue be screened for cancer after cosmetic surgery?
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Young women undergoing cosmetic breast reduction surgery are being screened for cancer without their informed consent, according to a paper published on bmj.com today.
From slam poetry to plain language for health care
Jul 08, 2009 |
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The doctor's mouth opens, and "medicalese" pours forth: words like "pyrosis" and "myocardial infarction." The patient's eyes glaze over. If only the doctor said "heartburn" or "heart attack," the patient could learn what ...
Bioethicist: Egg donors should be paid
Aug 10, 2006 |
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A U.S. bioethicist says women who donate their eggs for stem cell research should be compensated, as are other healthy research volunteers.
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