title: Informed consent in medical research. Journals should not publish research to which patients have not given fully informed consent--with three exceptions.
authors.affiliation: St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Doyal
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003657:Decision Making; D030881:Disclosure; D035081:Editorial Policies; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D016743:Mental Competency; D009014:Morals; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D033282:Parental Consent; D026706:Paternalism; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011643:Publishing; D012106:Research; D035842:Research Subjects; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012935:Social Justice; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation