Though enveloped by challenges, informed consent is an important tool in clinical trials, which facilitates the entry of new therapeutic interventions into the market. No research activity involving human subjects can be conducted and proceed unless informed consent is completely sought.
Abstract. Informed consent is an ethical and legal requirement for research involving human participants. It is the process where a participant is informed about all aspects of the trial, which are important for the participant to make a decision and after studying all aspects of the trial the participant voluntarily confirms his ...
Clinical trial is a term used to describe all research related activities, which use human being as subjects. As no individual has right to infract fundamental rights of another person for the sake of fulfilling his own purpose, so an important tool called “informed consent” came into existence.
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