Medical Ethics

ISSN Print 2713-0894 ISSN Online 2713-0908

BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF ERMC EASTERN EUROPEAN

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Grebenshchikova EG, Chuchalin AG

The article discusses voluntary informed consent as a manifestation of respect for patient's autonomy, which is determined by both legal regulations and sociocultural factors. This approach is considered to be the most influential in current bioethics. The authors review the main elements of informed consent, its specificsin clinical trials and the autonomous choice criteria.

Received: 2021-02-12

Published online: 2021-03-30

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2021.001

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The Informed Consent (IC) procedure is considered as a legal construct, a product of liberal economics. As such, IC is a tool for shifting responsibility for the choice of intervention from the seller of health care services to the consumer and is a binding contract to avoid legal liability and all sorts of losses on both sides. The set of problems surrounding the IC can be explained by the significant difference between an experimental procedure (for which it was originally created) and everyday clinical practice. The application of the IC law has no mechanisms for its individual application because it fails to take into account the psychology of decision-making.

Received: 2021-03-16

Published online: 2021-03-29

DOI: 10.24075/medet.2021.004

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