"Informed Consent" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.
| Descriptor ID |
D007258
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.473.650.718 I01.880.604.583.427 N03.706.437.650.312 N03.706.535.489
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Informed Consent" by people in this website by year, and whether "Informed Consent" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Informed Consent" by people in Profiles.
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Mills K, Figueroa F, Knight R, Ekpo E, Lee LC, Baldo L, Xu C, Wang S, Adelman RM, Pemu P, Levin T, Shaukat A, Liu JJ. Fact or Myth? Black Patients Do Not Want to Participate in Clinical Trials. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2025 Apr 01; 16(4):e00826.
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Batra P, Rodriguez K, Cheney AM. Using Deliberative and Qualitative Methods to Recommend Revisions to the Medicaid Sterilization Waiting Period. Womens Health Issues. 2020 Jul - Aug; 30(4):260-267.
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Roth CP, Coulter ID, Kraus LS, Ryan GW, Jacob G, Marks JS, Hurwitz EL, Vernon H, Shekelle PG, Herman PM. Researching the Appropriateness of Care in the Complementary and Integrative Health Professions Part 5: Using Patient Records: Selection, Protection, and Abstraction. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2019 06; 42(5):327-334.
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Manda-Taylor L, Liomba A, Taylor TE, Elwell K. Barriers and Facilitators to Obtaining Informed Consent in a Critical Care Pediatric Research Ward in Southern Malawi. J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2019 04; 14(2):152-168.
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Afolabi MOS. A Neuroethical Analysis of Physicians' Dual Obligations in Clinical Research. Am J Bioeth. 2019 Apr; 19(4):39-42.
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Sodeke SO, Powell LR. Paying Tribute to Henrietta Lacks at Tuskegee University and at The Virginia Henrietta Lacks Commission, Richmond, Virginia. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2019; 30(4S):1-11.
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Sceats LA, Morris AM, Narayan RR, Mezynski A, Woo RK, Yang GP. Lost in translation: Informed consent in the medical mission setting. Surgery. 2019 02; 165(2):438-443.
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Afolabi MOS, Sodeke SO. Reconciling Competence and Consent in Opioid-Dependence Research: The Value of Vulnerability Rhetoric. Am J Bioeth. 2017 12; 17(12):48-50.
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Ramos SR, Gordon P, Bakken S, Schnall R. Sociotechnical Analysis of Health Information Exchange Consent Processes in an HIV Clinic. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2016 Nov - Dec; 27(6):792-803.
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Larson EL, Lally R, Foe G, Joaquin G, Meyer DD, Cohn EG. Improving the Proficiency of Research Consent Administrators. Clin Transl Sci. 2015 Aug; 8(4):351-4.