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Informed consent is a necessary part of most medical procedures and yet people are largely unclear about its meaning and significance. It is the process whereby the detail of a medical treatment is ...

Obtaining valid consent is a fundamental part of providing quality care and a key ethical and legal requirement in medicine. Issues around consent can, however, trip up even the most experienced ...

Why do we ask authors to provide a consent form signed by the patient before we will publish an image or case history in CMAJ that might lead to the patient’s identification? Consent is needed because ...

The aims of ideal preoperative informed consent include educating the patient adequately to enable an autonomous decision to be made without causing undue anxiety. We study how the paternalistic and ...

Informed consent is a process that’s required for most medical procedures. However, there’s often confusion about what informed consent is, what it means, and when it’s needed. In a healthcare setting ...

Health data’s potential can be vertigo-inducing, with seemingly limitless insights available to be mined from data sets old and new. The risks, too, can turn the stomach: faulty and biased algorithms; ...

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