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  2. Informed consent - Wikipedia

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    Example of informed consent document from the PARAMOUNT trial. Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law, media studies, and other fields, that a person must have sufficient information and understanding before making decisions about accepting risk, such as their medical care.

  3. Dynamic consent - Wikipedia

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    Dynamic consent is an approach to informed consent that enables on-going engagement and communication between individuals and the users and custodians of their data. It is designed to address the many issues that are raised by the use of digital technologies in research and clinical care that enable the wide-scale use, linkage, analysis and integration of diverse datasets and the use of AI and ...

  4. List of medical ethics cases - Wikipedia

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    Doctors infected soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners, and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases without the informed consent of the subjects, and treated most subjects with antibiotics. This resulted in at least 83 deaths. [12] In October 2010, the US formally apologized to Guatemala for conducting these experiments.

  5. Patient participation - Wikipedia

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    Informed consent is a process where patients make decisions informed by the advice of medical professionals. In recent years, the term patient participation has been used in many different contexts. These include, for example, clinical contexts in the form of shared decision-making , or patient-centered care .

  6. Medical record - Wikipedia

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    Digital images of the patient, flowsheets from operations/intensive care units, informed consent forms, EKG tracings, outputs from medical devices (such as pacemakers), chemotherapy protocols, and numerous other important pieces of information form part of the record depending on the patient and his or her set of illnesses/treatments.

  7. Medical ethics - Wikipedia

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    To give informed consent, a patient must be competent to make a decision regarding their treatment and be presented with relevant information regarding a treatment recommendation, including its nature and purpose, and the burdens, risks and potential benefits of all options and alternatives. [62]

  8. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    A study of 2,600 patients at two hospitals determined that between 26% and 60% of patients could not understand medication directions, a standard informed consent, or basic health care materials. [132] This mismatch between a clinician's level of communication and a patient's ability to understand can lead to medication errors and adverse outcomes.

  9. Medical privacy - Wikipedia

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    For example, many employers use insurance information and medical records as an indicator of work ability and ethic. [12] The selling of privacy information can also lead employers to make much money; however, this happens to many people without their consent or knowledge.