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    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 94Issue 9
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      To compare recall of complications and surgical details discussed during informed consent and perception of the consent process in patients undergoing emergent vs elective surgery.
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  • Practical Guidance on Informed Consent for Pediatric Participants in a Biorepository
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 89Issue 11
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      In the decade since the Human Genome Project was completed, the knowledge and technologies that this project enabled have led to a remarkable evolution in the way biorepositories are designed and operated. Early biobanks were often designed to facilitate the study of a single condition, whereas biobanks established in the past decade have more frequently been created with a broader research mission in mind.1 Accompanying this transition have come other changes in biobank practices, including the generation and storage of genome-scale sequencing data, frequent sharing of biosamples and data, pooling of resources among sample collections, and increased interest in returning genetic research results to sample donors.
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  • Patients' Perspective on Full Disclosure and Informed Consent Regarding Postoperative Visual Loss Associated With Spinal Surgery in the Prone Position
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 86Issue 9
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      To determine patients' opinions regarding the person, method, and timing for disclosure of postoperative visual loss (POVL) associated with high-risk surgery.
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  • Benefits and Challenges of Informed Consent
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 83Issue 3
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      In this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Paterick et al1 provide a balanced summary of the moral and legal underpinnings of the doctrine of informed consent and identify its essential role in the patient-physician relationship. The authors further explain that procuring informed consent will limit the potential for negligence cases. The risk-management benefits of informed consent warrant further discussion.
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  • Patients' Satisfaction With the Preoperative Informed Consent Procedure: A Multicenter Questionnaire Survey in Switzerland
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 81Issue 3
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      To assess patients' satisfaction with the preoperative informed consent procedure in obstetrics and gynecology.
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  • Fixing Research Subjects Protection in the United States: Moving Beyond Consent
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 88Issue 5
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      Clinical research requires the active participation of human volunteers in clinical trials of new drugs, devices, or procedures. It is “the foundation on which medical and scientific discoveries…are translated into practice.”1 Over the past decades, a vast enterprise devoted to the protection of human participants in research has grown up. We all know its basic structure: oversight by institutional review boards that often demand longer and denser consent forms for participants to read and sign (or potentially to ignore).
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  • Institutional Review Boards: What Clinician Researchers Need to Know
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 94Issue 3
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      The institutional review board (IRB) is a group federally mandated to review and monitor research involving humans to ensure protection of their rights and welfare as research participants. Clinicians engaged in research require IRB approval for all research involving human participants, whether living individuals, data, or specimens. The process for obtaining IRB approval may seem like a daunting task. However, it is critical for clinical researchers to conduct research in a manner that protects human participants, and it is the mission of the IRB to help researchers accomplish this task.
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  • CRISPR Transgressions, the Language of Wrongness, and the Task of Ethics
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 95Issue 2
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      In this issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Meagher at al1 provide a concise summary of the scandal that emerged in late 2018 involving the purported use of CRISPR gene editing technology in 2 human embryos subsequently implanted and delivered.
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  • Ethical Issues in Geriatrics: A Guide for Clinicians
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 79Issue 4
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      Because of demographic trends, it is reasonable to expect that clinicians will care for an increasing number of elderly persons with challenging medical and psychosocial problems. These problems and issues, in turn, may lead to daunting ethical dilemmas. Therefore, clinicians should be familiar with ethical dilemmas commonly encountered when caring for elderly patients. We review some of these dilemmas, including ensuring informed consent and confidentiality, determining decision-making capacity, promoting advance care planning and the use of advance directives, surrogate decision making, withdrawing and withholding interventions, using cardiopulmonary resuscitation and do-not-resuscitate orders, responding to requests for interventions, allocating health care resources, and recommending nursing home care.
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  • Effects of a Sedentary Behavior–Inducing Randomized Controlled Intervention on Depression and Mood Profile in Active Young Adults
    Mayo Clinic ProceedingsVol. 91Issue 8
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      To examine the effects of a free-living, sedentary behavior–inducing randomized controlled intervention on depression and mood profile.
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