INFORMED CONSENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does informed consent mean? 

• INFORMED CONSENT (noun)
  The noun INFORMED CONSENT has 1 sense:

1. consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved

  Familiarity information: INFORMED CONSENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFORMED CONSENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("informed consent" is a kind of...):

consent (permission to do something)

 Context examples 

A researcher in a study who oversees multiple aspects of the study, such as concept development, protocol writing, protocol submission for IRB approval, participant recruitment, informed consent, data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation.

(Investigator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

An important patient right is informed consent.

(Patient Rights, NIH)

EXAMPLE(S): Version 3 of a case report form (CRF) for a physical exam, version 2 of a informed consent form.

(Document Version, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Informed consent includes information about the possible risks, benefits, and limits of the procedure, treatment, trial, or genetic testing.

(Informed consent, NCI Dictionary)

NOTE(S): Derived from PerformedActivity.PerformedAdministrativeActivity.PerformedStudySubjectMilestone.actualDateRange WHERE PerformedActivity DefinedActivity.nameCode = "obtain informed consent".

(Performed Study Subject Milestone Informed Consent Date, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The authorization form may be part of the informed consent form.

(Authorization for Release of Confidential Health Information, NCI Thesaurus)

In AdministrativeActivity, the categoryCode may = "Disposition" (off study, epoch completion), "Milestone" (informed consent, enrollment, registry, randomization) or "Other" (unblinding) activities.

(Defined Activity Category Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Standard procedures will be used for all steps, including informed consent, clinical data collection, sample collection, pathology review, biomolecule extractions, quality control, laboratory data collection, and biomolecule distribution.

(Biospecimen Core Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): assignment to a treatment arm, registration to a study, start of on-study period, end of on-study period, obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, randomize, complete study visits, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal, etc.

(Performed Administrative Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

EXAMPLE(S): obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, registration to a study, randomize, assignment to a treatment arm, start of on-study period, complete study visits, end of on-study period, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal.

(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)