The informed consent is a compulsory action in medical research

Authors

  • Miguel L. Castellanos Arcís Facultad de Estomatología "Raúl González Sánchez". Hospital Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "General Freyre de Andrade". Cuidad de La Habana
  • José Manuel López Fernández Facultad de Estomatología "Raúl González Sánchez". Hospital Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "General Freyre de Andrade". Cuidad de La Habana
  • Mabel Caballé Ferreiras Facultad de Estomatología "Raúl González Sánchez". Hospital Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "General Freyre de Andrade". Cuidad de La Habana
  • Hugo García Alderete Facultad de Estomatología "Raúl González Sánchez". Hospital Docente Clinicoquirúrgico "General Freyre de Andrade". Cuidad de La Habana

Keywords:

Ethics, bioethics, informed consent, moral, study, review

Abstract

We made a review of ethical and bioethical features to enter the heart of informed
consent. Scientific knowledge has allows significant advances very beneficial for
mankind. Development of these scientific branches give raise many serious ethical
problems, by which the scientists and also all the society members must to look
after. Present Medicine, has a strong experimental charge and from research
laboratories give raise extrapolations for men. Researches performed, each time
with a great frequency, allow the involvement of persons, and a compulsory
procedure in researches with human beings, is the informed consent for their
inclusion in study. This feature is not a isolated action directed to achieve that
patient signs a document allowing to health staff to perform a treatment or a
research, but a process where must to be explained all actions for health, at any of
the three care levels. In this review main details that must to be discussed with
patient are detailed, and also the elements present in conversation and form for its
authorization.

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Published

2009-01-16

How to Cite

1.
Castellanos Arcís ML, López Fernández JM, Caballé Ferreiras M, García Alderete H. The informed consent is a compulsory action in medical research. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2009 Jan. 16 [cited 2025 Feb. 7];46(1):64-7. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2605

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2009): JAN- MAR

Section

Review Article

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