Informed consent

How it is used

Required for every clinical trial and recorded on a signed consent form. Participants can withdraw consent at any time without giving a reason. People give, obtain, seek or withdraw informed consent; in British English researchers also 'take consent'.

Example sentences

1. No patient can be enrolled before informed consent has been obtained.

2. The research nurse took informed consent and gave him a copy of the form.

Common collocations

• obtain informed consent
• give informed consent
• withdraw consent
• consent form

Related terms

• clinical trialA research study in people that tests whether a new medicine or treatment is safe and works, usually by comparing it with a placebo or an existing treatment.
• randomized controlled trialA study in which participants are put into groups by chance, one receiving the treatment being tested and another a placebo or standard treatment, so results can be fairly compared.
• placeboA dummy treatment that looks like the real medicine but contains no active ingredient, used in clinical trials for comparison with the drug being tested.
• preclinicalDescribes the stage of drug development before testing in humans, when a compound is studied in the laboratory and in animals for its activity and safety.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• informed consent · Medicine
• informed consent · Nursing
• informed consent · Dentistry
• informed consent · Psychology
• informed consent · Healthcare Management
• informed consent · Genetics & Biotechnology
• informed consent · Sociology
• informed consent · Social Work
• informed consent · Academic English & Research

More terms: Clinical Trials and Drug Development

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• endpoint