ArticlePublic health ethics2011
Can Broad Consent be Informed Consent?
Article in Public health ethics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Towards a Design Toolkit of Informed Consent Models Across Fields: A Systematic Review.Science and engineering ethics · 2022Pooled it
- Stakeholders' perspectives on biobank-based genomic research: systematic review of the literature.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2015Pooled it
- Best Practices for Ethical Sharing of Individual-Level Health Research Data From Low- and Middle-Income Settings.Journal of empirical research on human research ethics : JERHRE · 2015Pooled it
- Secondary use of health care data and left-over biosamples within the 'Medical Informatics Initiative' (MII): a quasi-randomized controlled evaluation of patient perceptions and preferences regarding the consent process.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2022Trial
- Data Privacy, Ownership, and Secondary Use of Clinical Data Generated by Continuous Glucose Monitors and Mobile Health Applications: A Review.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2026Review
- Public attitudes towards consent for the donation of surplus frozen eggs to research.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Recommendations for biomarker data collection in clinical trials by longevity biotechnology companies.npj aging · 2025Article
- Unresolved ethical questions of mHealth apps for Alzheimer's disease prevention.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025Article
- Enabling Demonstrated Consent for Biobanking with Blockchain and Generative AI.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2025Article
- Artificial Intelligence Needs Data: Challenges Accessing Italian Databases to Train AI.Asian bioethics review · 2024Article
- [Nationally standardized broad consent in practice: initial experiences, current developments, and critical assessment].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2024Article
- Ethical and social reflections on the proposed European Health Data Space.European journal of human genetics : EJHG · 2024Article
- Cross-border data sharing for research in Africa: An analysis of the data protection and research ethics requirements in 12 jurisdictions.Research square · 2024Article
- Consent as a compositional act - a framework that provides clarity for the retention and use of data.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2024Article
- Identifying facilitators of and barriers to the adoption of dynamic consent in digital health ecosystems: a scoping review.BMC medical ethics · 2023Article
- Data for sale: trust, confidence and sharing health data with commercial companies.Journal of medical ethics · 2023Article
- Retinal Scans and Data Sharing: The Privacy and Scientific Development Equilibrium.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2023Review
- A Preliminary Study to Explore the Informed Consent Approach and the Ethical Challenges in the Malaysian Biobanking for Research.Asian bioethics review · 2023Article
- A leap of faith: building the trust in human biobanks.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Better governance starts with better words: why responsible human tissue research demands a change of language.BMC medical ethics · 2022Article
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Abstract
In biobanks, a broader model of consent is often used and justified by a range of different strategies that make reference to the potential benefits brought by the research it will facilitate combined with the low level of risk involved (provided adequate measures are in place to protect privacy and confidentiality) or a questioning of the centrality of the notion of informed consent. Against this, it has been suggested that the lack of specific information about particular uses of the samples means that such consent cannot be fully autonomous and so is unethical. My answer to the title question is a definite 'yes'. Broad consent can be informed consent and is justified by appeal to the principle of respect for autonomy. Indeed, I will suggest that the distinction between the various kinds of consent is not a distinction between kinds of consent but between the kinds of choice a person makes. When an individual makes a choice (of any kind) it is important that they do so according to the standards of informed consent and consistent with the choice that they are making.
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