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- Published on: 30 June 2004
- Published on: 30 June 2004Informed Consent, not consensusShow More
Dear Editor
"Informed consent is a great advance towards protecting the rights and autonomy of patients.
However its usefulness is far from universal: informed consent cannot clarify the secondary use of tissues, as the authors point out, and in practice its use is more and more a manner of legal protection against malpractice claims in various countries, and a virtual nonentity in emergency situations,
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