'Time out'-more transparency is required in 'Just-in-time' consent

Affiliations

¹ Epidemiology Unit, Health Research Institute-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Avda. Reyes Católicos 2, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: rafael.dalre@quironsalud.es.
² Division of Medical Ethics, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 1st Ave., New York, NY 10016, United States.
³ Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Clinical Research Centre, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd 117597, Block MD11, #02-03, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore 119077, Singapore.

Comment

Rafael Dal-Ré et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2023 Feb.

. 2023 Feb:108:100-101.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2022.11.031. Epub 2022 Nov 29.

¹ Epidemiology Unit, Health Research Institute-Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Avda. Reyes Católicos 2, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: rafael.dalre@quironsalud.es.
² Division of Medical Ethics, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 1st Ave., New York, NY 10016, United States.
³ Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Clinical Research Centre, National University of Singapore, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Rd 117597, Block MD11, #02-03, 10 Medical Drive, Singapore 119077, Singapore.

No abstract available

Keywords: Ethics; Informed consent; Just-in-time consent; Post-randomization consent; Pre-randomization consent.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare they have no conflict of interest.

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