The Importance of Using Deferred Proxy Consent in Emergency Clinical Research
Obtaining informed consent from potential research subjects can be fraught with difficulty at the best of times. In emergency and critical care settings, informed consent from patients themselves is seldom obtained because they often lose decision-making capacity as a result of their severe illness...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Voices in Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/6023 |