Informed consent

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A patient was given an experimental course of complementary medicine when a standard treatment was available (2003) — last modified 2004-12-16 02:15 PM

unethical research; informed consent; ethics approval; public interest; regulatory body

Babies needlessly subjected to a painful procedure for research (2003) — last modified 2004-12-16 01:28 PM

informed consent; ethics approval; unnecessary procedure; unethical research; withdrawal of paper

New surgical technique without evidence of either ethics committee approval or patient consent (2002) — last modified 2004-12-16 05:04 PM

clinical innovation; surgery; informed consent; ethics approval

Bizarre treatment of viral disease overseas (2001) — last modified 2004-12-16 06:06 PM

informed consent; ethics approval; unethical research

Dubious surgery (2001) — last modified 2004-12-16 06:05 PM

informed consent; surgery; ethics committee approval; unethical research; clinical innovation; regulatory body

Possibly unethical plastic surgery (2000) — last modified 2004-12-21 06:34 PM

private practice; surgery; clinical malpractice; informed consent

Scientifically meaningless research without consent (2000) — last modified 2004-12-21 06:32 PM

private practice; meaningless research; ethics approval; informed consent; regulatory body

Clinical misconduct (?), incidentally discovered (2000) — last modified 2004-12-21 06:24 PM

unethical research; informed consent; clinical innovation

The hazardous drug used in an unlicensed way (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 07:09 PM

ethics committee approval; informed consent; unethical research

The unacceptable use of a placebo (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 07:04 PM

ethics committee approval; informed consent; unethical research

A surgical series that is scientifically meaningless, has no ethics committee approval, and does not mention informed consent (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 07:00 PM

surgery; ethics approval; informed consent; meaningless research

Invasive intervention without consent (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 06:56 PM

informed consent; ethics committee approval; meaningless research; unethical research

Compromise of patient confidentiality? (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 06:53 PM

duty of confidentiality; informed consent

Ethical status of author's actions (2000) — last modified 2004-12-16 06:13 PM

ethics committee approval; informed consent; clinical innovation

Patients with vitiligo treated with anti-fungal drugs by a general practitioner (1999) — last modified 2004-12-22 11:45 AM

regulatory body; informed consent; ethics committee approval

Uncertain treatment of four patients following previous published experiments (1999) — last modified 2004-12-22 11:44 AM

non-medically qualified reseachers; overseas authors; regulatory body; informed consent

Unethical research (1998) — last modified 2004-12-22 01:55 PM

unethical research; informed consent; ethics committee approval

Living unrelated (commercial) organ transplantation (1998) — last modified 2004-12-22 01:06 PM

ethical commentary; informed consent; commercial organ transplantation

Unethical research undertaken by a single handed GP (1998) — last modified 2004-12-22 01:02 PM

ethics committee approval; informed consent; unethical research; regulator body; meaningless research

Informed consent (1998) — last modified 2004-12-22 12:49 PM

deception; consent to publication; informed consent