Ethical issues of recruitment and enrollment of critically ill and injured patients for research

AACN Advanced Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 352-355

  Richmond, Therese S ^a,b,c   Ulrich, Connie ^a,c,d  

^a PhD Program   (United States)

^b Firearm and Injury Center at Penn   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Center for Bioethics

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESEARCH SUBJECT; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCIES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL COMPETENCY; NURSE'S ROLE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH SUBJECTS;

EID: 35848966099     PISSN: 15597768     EISSN: 15597768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AACN.0000298626.30406.e1     Document Type: Article

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