Eight internal medicine patients consented to participate in the study (five male, three female; aged 59.3 ± 16.8 years).
The presence of medical personnel during brutal interrogations of men like Abu Zubaydah, they said, was difficult to reconcile with both the CIA's internal requirement of "informed consent" on human experimentation subjects and responsible medical practices.
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After some debate and (obviously) without support from any 'third party' payers, we invited family members into the department for genetic testing after written informed consent and internal review board procedures had been satisfied.
METHODS: We examined data from the University of Chicago Hospitalist Study, which gathers sociodemographic and clinical information from all consenting general internal medicine patients at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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The hospital's internal reviews found that the consent form failed to inform patients that hetastarch -- a substance used in two of the blood expanders in the study, including the one sold by Abbott - could prevent blood from clotting properly, especially when used at higher doses.
Participants, all undergraduate students (N = 174), were recruited via internal mail and provided written consent in accordance with procedures approved by the Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences (Psychology Unit) at Kingston University and in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the British Psychological Society.
This approach was in accordance with the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Epidemiological Studies [ 21]; moreover, before the study began the Internal Review Board determined that consent is not required.
The procedure was approved by the institutional internal review board and informed consents were signed before sample collection.
