• Crit Care · Jan 2007

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    Research in critically ill patients: standards of informed consent.

    • Catherine Chenaud, Paolo Merlani, and Bara Ricou.
    • Service of Intensive Care, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. catherine.chenaud@hcuge.ch
    • Crit Care. 2007 Jan 1;11(1):110.

    AbstractPatients in critical care lose their capability to make a judgement, and constitute a 'vulnerable population' needing special and reinforced protection. Even if the standard of informed consent is an essential way of demonstrating respect for the patient's autonomy, the usual informed-consent procedure is not as applicable as required or sufficient to warrant this ethical principle in critical care.

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