Regulatory issues - informed consent for a device investigation.
For any patient about to undergo surgery, consent must be given; otherwise, the surgeon would be committing an assault. When a subject is to participate in a medical device investigation which is basically an experiment, a great deal more information is needed to assure that consent is really inform...
| Published in: | IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 23, 3 (2004). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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