Putting the interest of patients first means attending to what the patient thinks is most important as well as treating medically significant symptoms and conditions.
There are many elements and much coordination involved in the design and implementation of an effective resident training program in systems-based practice.
Does a surgeon’s complication rate in a randomized controlled trial constitute a “significant new finding” that must be reported to patients during the consent process?
Primary materials including interviews with some of the volunteer subjects provide information on the experiments into the pathogenic mechanism of yellow fever.
Institutional review boards (IRBs) have the responsibility to ensure the protection of human-research subjects and are legally liable if they fail to do so.