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  1. Experienced consent in geriatrics research: a new method to optimize the capacity to consent in frail elderly subjects.M. G. Rikkert, J. H. van den Bercken, H. A. ten Have & W. H. Hoefnagels - 1997 - Journal of Medical Ethics 23 (5):271-276.
    OBJECTIVES: Cognitive and sensory difficulties frequently jeopardize informed consent of frail elderly patients This study is the first to test whether preliminary research experience could enhance geriatric patients' capacity to consent. DESIGN/SETTING: A step-wise consent procedure was introduced in a study on fluid balance in geriatric patients. Eligible patients providing verbal consent participated in a try-out of a week, during which bioelectrical impedance and weight measurements were performed daily. Afterwards, written informed consent was requested. Comprehension, risk and inconvenience scores (ranges: (...)
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  • The conduct of Canadian researchers and Institutional Review Boards regarding substituted consent for research.Gina Bravo, Marie-France Dubois & Mariane Paquet - 2004 - IRB: Ethics & Human Research 26 (1):1-8.
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