| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Consent for the use of personal medical data in research
— [Confidentiality and consent in medical research] | | Author(s) | Peter Singleton, Michael Wadsworth |
| Corporate Author | Medical Research Council - MRC |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 333 no 7561, 29 July 2006 |
| Pages | pp 255-258 (2 of 4 articles) |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Health services ; Confidential material ; Research ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | Properly obtained consent is needed for all clinical trials, yet one size does not necessarily fit all. This is the second of a four-part series building on a Medical Research Council (MRC) review carried out during 2004-2005 on how to manage consent and confidentiality in using personal information in medical research. This article looks at different consent models, and emphasises the need to support choice rather than just observing the formalities of "gaining consent". It remarks that how we seek consent will alter participants' perceptions and choices without necessarily increasing validity. Another problem is that different consent processes have different cost implications, which may outweigh likely benefits for population-scale studies or databases, making such research unfeasible. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060823204 A |
| Classmark | L: 6RC: 3A: 583 * |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|