Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

Informed consent is a fundamental component of modern healthcare and represents a patient's right to understand and agree to a medical procedure, treatment or study. True informed consent empowers ...

Biomedical research is being transformed through the application of information technologies that allow ever greater amounts of data to be shared on an unprecedented scale. However, the methods for ...

Note: Always use lay language that is appropriate to the population being asked to sign the form. Use short paragraphs, bullets and subheadings to increase readability. See the informed consent form ...

Consent is a clear and affirmative expression of the permission to do something, to touch or to be touched in certain places, with certain manners and at certain times. Many myths about sex and ...