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CASTELLANOS ARCIS, Miguel L.; LOPEZ FERNANDEZ, José Manuel; CABALLE FERREIRAS, Mabel  y  GARCIA ALDERETE, Hugo. The informed consent is a compulsory action in medical research. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2009, vol.46, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-297X.

We made a review of ethical and bioethical features to enter the heart of informed consent. Scientific knowledge has allows significant advances very beneficial for mankind. Development of these scientific branches give raise many serious ethical problems, by which the scientists and also all the society members must to look after. Present Medicine, has a strong experimental charge and from research laboratories give raise extrapolations for men. Researches performed, each time with a great frequency, allow the involvement of persons, and a compulsory procedure in researches with human beings, is the informed consent for their inclusion in study. This feature is not a isolated action directed to achieve that patient signs a document allowing to health staff to perform a treatment or a research, but a process where must to be explained all actions for health, at any of the three care levels. In this review main details that must to be discussed with patient are detailed, and also the elements present in conversation and form for its authorization.

Palabras clave : Ethics; bioethics; informed consent; moral; study; review.

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