Barriers to informed consent.
OBJECTIVE
To provide oncology nurses with a review of barriers that may limit the ability of adults to provide informed consent.


METHODS
Published articles, research studies, and review articles pertaining to informed consent and clinical research.


CONCLUSIONS
Patient-centered barriers to informed consent (such as age, education, and illness) and process-centered barriers (such as content and readability of the consent form, timing of discussion, and amount of time allotted to the process) can affect an individual's ability to provide substantial informed consent.


CONCLUSIONS
Oncology nurses must be aware and knowledgeable of the various barriers to informed consent to minimize these barriers and to improve and facilitate the informed consent process.
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Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D003144:Communication Barriers; D032882:Comprehension; D032962:Consent Forms; D036262:Empirical Research; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards*; D035842:Research Subjects; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D036302:Therapeutic Human Experimentation; D014481:United States