Obtaining informed consent in medicine is a process that should include describing the proposed intervention, emphasizing the patient's role in decision-making, discussing alternatives to the proposed intervention, discussing the risks and benefits of the proposed intervention, and eliciting the patient's preference, ...
Informed consent is a process of communication between you and your health care provider that often leads to agreement or permission for care, treatment, or services. Every patient has the right to get information and ask questions before procedures and treatments.
Consent should be obtained before the participant enters the research (prospectively), and there must be no undue influence on participants to consent. The minimum requirements for consent to be informed are that the participant understands what the research is and what they are consenting to.
It involves understanding the person's goals and concerns, and discussing with the person (or their substitute decision-maker) their options for treatment, the potential outcomes (positive, negative and neutral), risks and benefits and what this might mean for them.
For an ethically valid consent, information provided to a research subject should include, but not be limited to: information about the health condition for which the research is proposed; details of the nature and purpose of the research; the expected duration of the subject's participation; a detailed description of ...