Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Doing research on the ethics of doing research. | Available online http content 11 1 111 Commentary Doing research on the ethics of doing research Robert D Truog1 2 1 Harvard Medical School Department of Social Medicine Division of Medical Ethics 651 Huntington Ave Boston MA 02115 USA 2Children s Hospital Boston Department of Anesthesiology Division of Critical Care Mediciine 300 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA Corresponding author Robert D Truog Published 19 February 2007 This article is online at http content 11 1 111 2007 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2007 11 111 doi cc5684 See related research by Chenaud et al. http content 10 6 R170 Abstract In the previous issue of Critical Care Chenaud and colleagues found that most intensive care unit patients who had given informed consent for their participation in a clinical trial could not recall either the purpose of the trial or its related risks several days later. These findings should remind us that informed consent is a process not an event but they should not be interpreted to mean that recall is of itself a useful criterion for evaluating either the validity or the quality of the informed consent process. On an entirely separate note the decision of the authors not to obtain informed consent for this study itself raises interesting questions about the ethics of doing research on the ethics of doing research. Chenaud and colleagues 1 are to be commended for their interest in achieving a better understanding of informed consent for research obtained during the intensive care unit stay . Because intensive care medicine consumes an ever increasing percentage of total health care expenditure research to define both its benefits and limitations is a moral imperative. Ironically ethical concerns about informed consent for clinical studies in the intensive care unit ICU are making this research increasingly difficult to conduct especially in Europe 2-5 . The essential finding of this .
