Consenting of the vulnerable: The informed consent procedure in advanced cancer patients in Mexico

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Verástegui, Emma L ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Comision Nacional de Bioetica ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG INDUSTRY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEXICO; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARDS;

ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONSENT FORMS; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG INDUSTRY; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEXICO; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 33846471617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-13     Document Type: Article

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