How to Use informed consent in a Sentence

informed consent

noun
  • That process is informed consent.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 31 Jan. 2026
  • One issue with the syphilis study was the lack of informed consent.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The new informed consent law does not apply to them, Wuth said.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Adult patients need to sign an informed consent form to access trans health care.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • Far more care and planning are crucial as well as a robust informed consent process.
    — Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • For users under 13, this informed consent must come from a parent or guardian.
    — Athena Jones, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • All of the users in our study will have given informed consent to participate, and will be paid for their time.
    — WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Then, there's an informed consent process using a pre-recorded video so that people can review it at any time.
    — Susan Rinkunas, Marie Claire, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The suit charges the doctors involved with malpractice and lack of informed consent.
    — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Shared decision-making is informed consent on steroids, honed for the gray areas.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Flight providers do, though, have to get extremely informed consent from would-be astronauts.
    — Sarah Scoles, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The states say the laws are important for obtaining informed consent.
    — Pete Williams /, NBC News, 26 June 2018
  • In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.
    — Salvador Hernandezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But many in the research community came together in a push to loosen the rules on informed consent.
    — Sharyl Attkisson, Baltimore Sun, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Sparrow went to Texas and found an informed consent clinic in Houston.
    — Orion Rummler, Them, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The problem is that the inmates are not able to give informed consent for this medical procedure.
    — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • Residents have to sign informed consent forms to get a vaccine, forms that are often long and cumbersome.
    — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Many patients are not told of the risk of POCD during the process of informed consent.
    — Judith Graham, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • The researchers report the donors gave their informed consent to use their DNA in these studies.
    — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2019
  • One is the infectious disease aspect, and one is the danger to the patients themselves and the ethics around informed consent.
    — Mandy Nguyen, Vox, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But this informed consent shouldn’t be a barrier to actually going in and getting the shot.
    — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Decisions should be based on the best evidence available and shared with the patient, who should provide informed consent.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Further, the activists from Bhopal alleged that the process of informed consent was not followed diligently.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 12 Jan. 2021
  • The Lacks case, along with the Tuskegee study, became part of the debate surrounding when informed consent must be obtained.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2020
  • If people’s way of life is to be forcibly changed in an expensive attempt to decarbonize society, at the very least it should be done with their informed consent.
    — Rupert Darwall, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • True informed consent empowers patients to be part of the decision-making process and be aware of risks and alternatives.
    — Alon Zuckerman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The key sticking point has been informed consent, the process that walks individuals through the ins and outs of donating their embryos to science.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The group demanded informed consent for the pill and protested that the Senate did not have a single woman who took the pill testify.
    — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • The researchers both withheld treatment for the men with syphilis and failed to accurately describe the program to obtain informed consent.
    — Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Vila, a physician from Tampa, asked Roth about the informed consent discussion.
    — Christine Sexton, sun-sentinel.com, 10 June 2019

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