informed consent
noun
: consent to surgery by a patient or to participation in a medical experiment by a subject after achieving an understanding of what is involved
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Decisions should be based on the best evidence available and shared with the patient, who should provide informed consent.
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Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 Apr. 2025
The genre has documented events such as the Tuskegee syphilis study – the 40-year experiment, conducted without informed consent, on Black men by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the effects of the disease when left untreated.
—A.d. Carson, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
Woke teachers' unions have infected classrooms with radical gender ideology, burdened teachers and staff with DEI policies, and deliberately excluded parents from notification and informed consent concerning the most intimate details of their children's lives.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Zoom in: The bill would establish individual ownership over genetic material, require informed consent before DNA can be shared with or sold to a third party and guarantee compensation if a company profits from a person's data.
—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
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Dominique Fluker, Essence, 16 Apr. 2025
The genre has documented events such as the Tuskegee syphilis study – the 40-year experiment, conducted without informed consent, on Black men by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the effects of the disease when left untreated.
—A.d. Carson, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2025
Woke teachers' unions have infected classrooms with radical gender ideology, burdened teachers and staff with DEI policies, and deliberately excluded parents from notification and informed consent concerning the most intimate details of their children's lives.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Zoom in: The bill would establish individual ownership over genetic material, require informed consent before DNA can be shared with or sold to a third party and guarantee compensation if a company profits from a person's data.
—Chrissy Suttles, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for informed consent
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“Informed consent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/informed%20consent. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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informed consent
noun
in·formed consent
in-ˌfȯrmd- 
: consent to surgery by a patient or to participation in a medical experiment by a subject after achieving an understanding of what is involved
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