CC Grand Rounds: Ethics Rounds: Capacity to Consent: What is it? Who has it?

Ethical clinical care and ethical clinical research depend on obtaining appropriate informed consent. However, obtaining consent in practice raises a number of challenges. What is required to give consent for clinical care, what is required to give consent for research, and how do they differ? Doe s an underlying cognitive impairment or psychiatric condition undermine the capacity to consent? Please join us to discuss these and other challenges clinicians face when obtaining informed consent. Presenter: Christa Zerbe, MD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Discussant: Paul Appelbaum, MD Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine and Law Director, Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry Columbia University For more information go tohttps://www.cc.nih.gov/ab...

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