Waivers of informed consent in research with competent participants and the Declaration of Helsinki

Waivers of informed consent in research with competent participants and the Declaration of Helsinki
Perspective
Rafael Dal-Ré
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 8 March 2023
Open Access
Excerpt
The World Medical Association started revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki in 2022 and it will have to address numerous issues that have arisen in research ethics since the last 2013 revision [1]. In the face of critical issues that have surfaced during the COVID-19 pandemic, less salient but nevertheless critically important issues may go unnoticed. One of these concerns is the conditions under which it is ethically permissible to modify or waive written informed consent in research with competent participants…