Forty-five years ago, a scandalous medical experiment in Alabama caused the United States to reexamine the concept of informed consent. While that scrutiny continues today, a recent case from Alabama, ...

The way current patient consent forms are written -- as formal, legal documents -- plants a litigious relationship in both the patient's and the surgeon's mind even before treatment has begun.

This randomized, double-blind study sought to understand whether cancer clinical trial consent form verbosity detracts from patients' decision making on trial enrollment. This trial tested mock ...