Particularly, the ethics committee approved not obtaining informed consent and authorized the study group that consent was taken as implied through action.
We are grateful to the cardio-anaesthesia team including the physicians Prof. Dr. Stefan De Hert, Prof. Dr. Annelies Moerman, Prof. Dr. Patrick Wouters, Stefaan Bouchez and the anaesthetists in training for asking eligible patients or their legally authorized representatives for consent for this study.
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The study was authorized by written consent of the owners and the protocol (2325/2011) was approved by the university's ethical committee in the use of animals (CEUA).
Due to the emergency conditions and the possible absence of relatives at enrolment in the trial, ethics committees authorized waived informed consent.
A total of 642 patients completed blood draws and consented for inclusion, with the balance of patients having been discharged, transferred, or deceased with no identifiable legally authorized representative for consent.
In Zimbabwe the parental informed consent document for children participating in clinical research is modeled along western laws of ethics and requires that the parent or legally authorized representative provide consent on behalf of a minor.
Family members are frequently unavailable, may not know the patient's wishes, or may not be specifically legally authorized to give consent for the patient's involvement in research.
Two approaches have been suggested to minimize such difficulties: pre-consent (including authorized deception and generic pre-consent) and minimised deception The principle of authorized deception has been advocated by Wendler and Miller [ 15].
Eighty-six oft one-hundred-eighty-threeree pathents matcriteria criteria; twentwenty-onethem could not be reached, so sixty-five were contacted; fifty-three of them gave verbal informed consent to participate in the present research by phone, and a written informed consent (previously authorized by the ethical committee) was given by these women before any assessment when they came to the clinic.
