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informed consent
noun
a patient's consent to a medical or surgical procedure or to participation in a clinical study after being properly advised of the relevant medical facts and the risks involved.
Word History and Origins
Origin of informed consent1
Example Sentences
Throughout the walkout, performers demanded a deal that would require video game producers to obtain informed consent before replicating their voices, likenesses or movements with AI.
This body insists its members are taught to observe "ethical touch protocols" that rely on informed consent.
Lawyers acting for motorists say this could further delay compensation which should be paid to car buyers who may not have given their informed consent for the commission payments.
He said the remains and sacred objects had been taken from Hawaii in 1840 "without free, prior and informed consent from families" so there was "no great deliberation" in the museum wanting to return them.
Half of Scotland's 32 councils pulled out of the survey following concerns about a lack of informed consent and worries over the anonymity for pupils.
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