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Informed consent for clinical trials of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disease: challenges and implications for trial design
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- Published on: 3 October 2012
- Published on: 3 October 2012Comments on the recent paper by Lipsman et al., "Informed consent for clinical trials of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disease: challenges and implications for trial design"Show More
In their recent paper "Informed consent for clinical trials of deep brain stimulation in psychiatric disease: challenges and implications for trial design",[1] Lipsman et al. discuss important factors that influence informed consent for deep brain stimulation when applied in clinical trials concerning psychiatric diseases. Undoubtedly the issue of informed consent to DBS and its ethical implications hardly can be overest...
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