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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
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Issue 12/2007
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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. …