title: Incidental Findings in Neuroimaging: Ethical and Medicolegal Considerations.
abstract: With the rapid advances in neurosciences in the last three decades, there has been an exponential increase in the use of neuroimaging both in basic sciences and clinical research involving human subjects. During routine neuroimaging, incidental findings that are not part of the protocol or scope of research agenda can occur and they often pose a challenge as to how they should be handled to abide by the medicolegal principles of research ethics. This paper reviews the issue from various ethical (do no harm, general duty to rescue, and mutual benefits and owing) and medicolegal perspectives (legal liability, fiduciary duties, Law of Tort, and Law of Contract) with a suggested protocol of approach.
authors: Centre of Neurosciences Study, Queen's University, 18 Stuart Street, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6 ; Centre of Studies in Primary Care, Queen's University, 220 Bagot Street, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 5E9 ; Department of Family Medicine, Queen's University, 220 Bagot Street, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 5E9.
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