Informed Consent in Practice
Medical decision making can be an extremely challenging experience for patients and their loved ones. Balancing various potential outcomes with levels of risk can be daunting for someone who is also dealing with the emotional stresses of illness. Gaining the patients true informed consent is a critical step for health care professionals to ensure that the best decisions can be made.
To prepare for this Discussion, review this weeks Learning Resources, paying particular attention to the Emanuel article, What Makes Clinical Research Ethical?
Also, review the Macklin article from Week 12, Applying the Four Priniciples before preparing and posting your discussion response.
By Thursday October 27, 2016, post a 400 word explanation of how informed consent for medical research (clinical trials) differs from the patients consent to treat used in health care practice (e.g., medical treatment or surgery). Explain why you think this difference exists? Provide at least one clear example of how informed consent could be used in medical research and one example of how it is used in health care practice. Then provide an example of each of the four ethical principals in action in research. Use your textbook, the articles in the Learning Resources, and/or other credible resources to support your answer.
Support your work with proper APA citations from the Learning Resources and any other sources.
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