ReviewJournal of medical ethics2002
Why we should not seek individual informed consent for participation in health services research.
Review in Journal of medical ethics, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- "Let's get the best quality research we can": public awareness and acceptance of consent to use existing data in health research: a systematic review and qualitative study.BMC medical research methodology · 2013Pooled it
- Can we evaluate population screening strategies in UK general practice? A pilot randomised controlled trial comparing postal and opportunistic screening for genital chlamydial infection.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2005Trial
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- Building an Opt-Out Model for Service-Level Consent in the Context of New Data Regulations.Public health ethics · 2022Article
- Considerations for an integrated population health databank in Africa: lessons from global best practices.Wellcome open research · 2021Article
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- Ethics and Phishing Experiments.Science and engineering ethics · 2018Article
- Investigating the Extent to Which Patients Should Control Access to Patient Records for Research: A Deliberative Process Using Citizens' Juries.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- Informed consent and registry-based research - the case of the Danish circumcision registry.BMC medical ethics · 2017Article
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- Informed consent in community-based oral health research.The Journal of forensic odonto-stomatology · 2014Article
- The ethics of health systems research in low- and middle-income countries: a call to action.Global public health · 2014Article
- Pragmatic randomised trials using routine electronic health records: putting them to the test.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2012Article
- The ethics of unlinked anonymous testing of blood: views from in-depth interviews with key informants in four countries.BMJ open · 2012Article
- Opt-out as an acceptable method of obtaining consent in medical research: a short report.BMC medical research methodology · 2011Article
- Sorry, You Can't Have That Information: Data Holder Confusion Regarding Privacy Requirements for Personal Health Information and the Potential Chilling Effect on Health Research.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2009Article
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Abstract
Ethics committees now require that individuals give informed consent to much health services research, in the same way as for clinical research. This is misguided. Existing ethical guidelines do not help us decide how to seek consent in these cases, and have allowed managerial experimentation to remain largely unchecked. Inappropriate requirements for individual consent can institutionalise health inequalities and reduce access to services for vulnerable groups. This undermines the fundamental purpose of the National Health Service (NHS), and ignores our rights and duties as its members, explored here. Alternative forms of community consent should be actively pursued.
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