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Informed Consent

"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.

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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.


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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.
Bar chart showing 29 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2019
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