Selecting a surrogate to consent to medical research

IRB Ethics and Human Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 7-11

  Amdur, Robert ^a   Bachir, Natalie ^b   Stanton, Elizabeth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CUSTODY; DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER (LEBANON, NH); FAMILY; FRIEND; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL ASPECT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER (LEBANON, NH);

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; FAMILY; FRIENDS; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LEGAL GUARDIANS; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT;

EID: 0034236549     PISSN: 01937758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3563784     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Areen J. The legal status of consent obtained from families of adult patients to withhold or withdraw treatment. JAMA 1987; 258:229-35.
2. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 464-A:9 III (1992).
3. Levine R.J. Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research, 2d ed. Baltimore, Md.: Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1986: 8-10.
4. See ref. 3, Levine 1986: 5.
5. N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 137-J:15 (1996).
6. Illinois Pub. Act 87-749, H.B. 2334, 87th Gen Assembly, 91st Sess., 1991
7. U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Those Institutionalized as Mentally Infirm. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978. DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0006.86. Bopp J, Jr., Coleson RE. A critique of family members as proxy decisionmakers without legal limits. Issues in Law & Medicine 1996;12:133, 141-51.
8. U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. Report and Recommendations: Research Involving Those Institutionalized as Mentally Infirm. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978. DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0006.86. Bopp J, Jr., Coleson RE. A critique of family members as proxy decisionmakers without legal limits. Issues in Law & Medicine 1996;12:133, 141-51.
9. For examples of unmarried domestic partners, see: Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 36-3231 (Supp. 1997); N.M. Stat. Ann. § 24-7A-5 (Michie 1997).
10. See ref. 9.
11. For examples of state laws that recognize friends or other unrelated persons as surrogates, see: Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 36-3231 (Supp. 1997); Del. Code Ann. tit. 16, § 2507 (Supp. 1996); Fla. Stat. Ann. § 765.401 (West 1997); III. Ann. Stat. ch. 755, para. 40/25 (Smith-Hurd Supp. 1998); Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 18-A, § 5-805 (1997); Md. Code Ann., Health-General § 5-605 (1994); N.M. Stat. Ann. § 24-7A-5 (Michie 1997).
12. U.S. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research. Washington, D.C., 1978. DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0012, Appendix I, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0013, Appendix II, DHEW Publication No. (OS) 78-0014.