The ethics of deferred consent in times of pandemics

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Humanities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. r.vandergraaf@umcutrecht.nl.
² Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Law, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Rieke van der Graaf et al. Nat Med. 2020 Sep.

. 2020 Sep;26(9):1328-1330.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-0999-9.

¹ Department of Medical Humanities, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. r.vandergraaf@umcutrecht.nl.
² Department of Parasitology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Law, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.

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