How experience makes a difference: practitioners' views on the use of deferred consent in paediatric and neonatal emergency care trials

BMC Medical Ethics 14 (1):45 (2013)
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Abstract

In 2008 UK legislation was amended to enable the use of deferred consent for paediatric emergency care (EC) trials in recognition of the practical and ethical difficulties of obtaining prospective consent in an emergency situation. However, ambiguity about how to make deferred consent acceptable to parents, children and practitioners remains. In particular, little is known about practitioners’ views and experiences of seeking deferred consent in this setting

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