The Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released new guidance to reiterate and provide clarity regarding hospital requirements for informed ...

HHS on Monday revised and clarified requirements for informed consent for certain procedures done in the hospital, especially examinations done while the patient is under anesthesia. "It is critically ...

Providing informed consent is a bedrock of ethical medical practice -- and a physician’s failure to provide proper informed consent is grounds for legal action. But, determining what constitutes ...

While informed consent in clinical research is the most rigorous of these frameworks, it only documents that information was disclosed, not that it was necessarily understood. Secondary health data ...