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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 10/2009

01-10-2009 | Editorial

The ‘Consent to Research’ paradigm in critical care: challenges and potential solutions

Authors: Karen E. A. Burns, Celia Zubrinich, John Marshall, Deborah Cook

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2009

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Clinical research in the intensive care unit (ICU) poses unique challenges. Investigators must operationalize protocols under emergency conditions, recruit patients within narrow time windows, study illnesses with high morbidity and mortality, and obtain consent for enrolment of critically ill patients who, by virtue of their illness, usually lack autonomous decision-making capacity. Difficulties in obtaining informed consent may reduce opportunities for critically ill patients to participate in research, prolong study implementation, limit the generalizability of study results, and delay identification of potentially effective, ineffective, and harmful interventions. …
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Metadata
Title
The ‘Consent to Research’ paradigm in critical care: challenges and potential solutions
Authors
Karen E. A. Burns
Celia Zubrinich
John Marshall
Deborah Cook
Publication date
01-10-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-009-1562-9

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