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 ...

"Enabling appropriate access to health information while maintaining patient trust remains a shared priority in healthcare,” said Mariann Yeager, chief executive officer at The Sequoia Project. "This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this randomized, controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov ID NCT04131062 registered on October 18, 2019), we tested whether the Sage eConsent framework (presented using an electronic application on an ...

Unfortunately, there is no short answer. It’s impossible to make broad sweeping statements about whether two minors can legally consent because the answer varies state to state. In the United States, ...

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 ...