Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2007

Open Access 01-12-2007 | Correspondence

Legislation on research involving patients who are (temporarily) unable to give informed consent: differences between European countries

Authors: Michael A. Kuiper, Denise P. Veelo, Peter E. Spronk, Marcus J. Schultz

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 12/2007

Login to get access

Excerpt

Sir: Recently Ciroldi et al. reported on the ability of family members to predict patient's consent to critical care research [1]. They showed that family members designated to serve as surrogate decision makers fail to accurately consent to research in one-third to one-half of cases. …
Literature
1.
Ciroldi M, Cariou A, Adrie C, Annane D, Castelain V, Cohen Y, Delahaye A, Joly LM, Galliot R, Garrouste-Orgeas M, Papazian L, Michel F, Barnes NK, Schlemmer B, Pochard F, Azoulay E (2007) Ability of family members to predict patient's consent to critical care research. Intensive Care Med 33:807–813PubMedCrossRef
2.
Veelo DP, Spronk PE, Kuiper MA, Korevaar JC, van der Voort PH, Schultz MJ (2006) A change in the Dutch Directive on Medical Research Involving Human Subjects strongly increases the number of eligible intensive care patients: an observational study. Intensive Care Med 32:1845–1850PubMedCrossRef
Metadata
Title
Legislation on research involving patients who are (temporarily) unable to give informed consent: differences between European countries
Authors
Michael A. Kuiper
Denise P. Veelo
Peter E. Spronk
Marcus J. Schultz
Publication date
01-12-2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 12/2007
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0815-8

Other articles of this Issue 12/2007

Intensive Care Medicine 12/2007 Go to the issue

Brief Report

Imipramine reverses the depressive symptoms in sepsis survivor rats

Pediatric Brief Report

High incidence of acute lung injury in children with Down syndrome

Original

Limitations of computed tomographic angiography in the diagnosis of brain death

Pediatric Original

Bactericidal permeability increasing protein gene variants in children with sepsis

Correspondence

Improving standards of oral hygiene in intensive care

Correspondence

Equivalence of posterior internal jugular and subclavian accesses in the incidence of central venous catheter related bacteremia