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Ethics & accountability · Owning failure

You designed the informed-consent language for a trial, and a subject later says they didn't understand that a procedure was research, not standard care. The IRB is asking questions. How do you own it?

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Informed consent is about a person's autonomy, so if a subject didn't understand what was research, the consent didn't do its job — and since I wrote the language, I own that gap r

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