WordNet
n. consent by a patient to undergo a medical or surgical treatment or to participate in an experiment after the patient understands the risks involved
Wikipedia
Informed consent is a process for getting permission before conducting a healthcare intervention on a person. A health care provider may ask a patient to consent to receive therapy before providing it, or a clinical researcher may ask a research participant before enrolling that person into a clinical trial. Informed consent is collected according to guidelines from the fields of medical ethics and research ethics.
An informed consent can be said to have been given based upon a clear appreciation and understanding of the facts, implications, and consequences of an action. To give informed consent, the individual concerned must have adequate reasoning faculties and be in possession of all relevant facts. Impairments to reasoning and judgment that may prevent informed consent include basic intellectual or emotional immaturity, high levels of stress such as PTSD or a severe intellectual disability, severe mental illness, intoxication, severe sleep deprivation, Alzheimer's disease, or being in a coma.
Some acts can take place because of a lack of informed consent. In cases where an individual is considered unable to give informed consent, another person is generally authorized to give consent on his behalf, e.g., parents or legal guardians of a child (though in this circumstance the child may be required to provide informed assent) and conservators for the mentally ill.
In cases where an individual is provided insufficient information to form a reasoned decision, serious ethical issues arise. Such cases in a clinical trial in medical research are anticipated and prevented by an ethics committee or Institutional Review Board.
Informed Consent Form Templates can be found on the World Health Organization Website for practical use.
"Informed Consent" is the third episode of the third season of House and the forty-ninth episode overall.
Usage examples of "informed consent".
While it was bad enough that this sweet sad woman had been turned into a kind of amphibian, it turned out that Hannah had neglected to get her to sign the informed consent to be in Win and Errol's experiment and get the Placedon, and if she didn't snap out of it, everybody involved would get sued to hell, Malik talked about Tardive, about how in the fifties when the major tran-quilizers came in, they were tested for a few years and then used on everybody, and how, as time went on--more time than they were tested for--it turned out that these drugs produced horrific side effects, this tongue-snapping frog-shit called Tardive.
From everything I've picked up, it's entirely possible that when Pat married Francis, she wasn't capable of rendering informed consent.
Miles couldn't decide if it constituted informed consent or not, under the circumstances.
The only thing that distinguished it from criminal battery was the informed consent.
In nursing, contracts and consent forms signed without informed consent weren't valid—.
He took a moment to let her adjust, to make sure he had informed consent for this.