P. Alison Paprica receives funding from the Canadian Institute of Health Research. She is affiliated with the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, the ...

Giving patients more direct control over their healthcare data is a frequent talking point among healthcare leaders. And it's an idea that seems to be picking up speed among federal healthcare policy ...

Canadian researchers have published new guidelines intended to make consent forms used in clinical research easier for patients to understand. The guidelines describe 75 core elements for consent ...

Federal regulations require that researchers obtain legally effective, documented, voluntary informed consent from prospective subjects (or subjects' legally authorized representatives) before ...

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 ...

The use of deception or incomplete disclosure limits the subject's ability to make a fully informed decision of whether to participate in the research — one of the essential ethical concerns in human ...