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Informed Consent

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Nursing Law and Ethics

Part of the book series: Medicolegal Library ((MEDICOLEGAL,volume 4))

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In order to ascertain the role of the nurse in the informed consent process in instances of research and treatment, 45 nurses were interviewed from two settings:

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    A public general hospital and

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    a private medical center.

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  1. Gray B (1975) Human subjects in medical experimentation. Wiley, New York

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  2. Alfidi R (1971) Informed consent: a study of patient reaction. JAMA, p 1325–29

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Davis, A.J. (1985). Informed Consent. In: Carmi, A., Schneider, S. (eds) Nursing Law and Ethics. Medicolegal Library, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82468-5_11

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