The answer is legal protection for medical care consistent with the informed, documented health care decisions of the patient or the surrogate, and consistent with standards of practice.
A key concept informing document analysis as a form of discourse involves examining the formal properties of a text, including the vocabulary choices and the grammatical features of the text (Fairclough 2003).
This study investigates how engineers' information-seeking practices intertwine looking for informing documents with looking for informed people.
Additional file 1: Ethical review board information and informed consent document.
During interviews, informed consent for study participation and later access to students' academic records was elicited using an information sheet and informed consent document.
The protocol and amendments, patient information leaflet and informed consent document were approved by independent ethics committees at all study centres, and also by the Spanish Ministry of Health.
Each such patient received a package containing an information letter, informed consent documents, a pre-stamped return envelope and the Survey of Sleep questionnaire (SOS).
The trial protocol, informed consent document and all trial specific documents were approved by the Ethics Committee II of the Medical Faculty of Mannheim, University of Heidelberg.
To complement this information, reference lists associated with the document (if available) are scanned to identify the types of research that directly informed the document.
This may involve viewing in detail the translations of information sheets or informed consent documents and/or letters of approval from the relevant local authorities.
Participants who were asked to sign a detailed written informed consent document had a lower rate of participation compared to those with verbal or limited written consent.
