Past, present, and future of informed consent in pain and genomics research: Challenges facing global medical community
Authors
Christian Compagnone
Michael E. Schatman
Richard L. Rauck
Jan Van Zundert
Monika Kraus
Dragan Primorac
Frances Williams
Massimo Allegri
Gloria Saccani Jordi
Guido Fanelli
A. Skelin
D. Perovic
K. Houra
D. Granec
C. Minella
M. DeGregori
Jason Hong
M. Baciarello
M. Marchesini
P. Vandelderen
S. Kovacic
K. Rotim
C. Gieger
Y. Aulchenko
I. K. Pemberton
J. MacDougal
Michael Black, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
School
School of Medical and Health Sciences
Abstract
In recent decades, there has been a revision of the role of institutional review boards with the intention of protecting human subjects from harm and exploitation in research. Informed consent aims to protect the subject by explaining all of the benefits and risks associated with a specific research project. To date, there has not been a review published analyzing issues of informed consent in research in the field of genetic/Omics in subjects with chronic pain, and the current review aims to fill that gap in the ethical aspects of such investigation. Despite the extensive discussion on ethical challenges unique to the field of genetic/Omics, this is the first attempt at addressing ethical challenges regarding Informed Consent Forms for pain research as the primary focus. We see this contribution as an important one, for while ethical issues are too often ignored in pain research in general, the numerous arising ethical issues that are unique to pain genetic/Omics suggest that researchers in the field need to pay even greater attention to the rights of subjects/patients. This article presents the work of the Ethic Committee of the Pain-Omics Group (www.painomics.eu), a consortium of 11 centers that is running the Pain-Omics project funded by the European Community in the 7th Framework Program theme (HEALTH.2013.2.2.1-5—Understanding and controlling pain). The Ethic Committee is composed of 1 member of each group of the consortium as well as key opinion leaders in the field of ethics and pain more generally.
DOI
10.1111/papr.12485
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free_to_read
Comments
Compagnone, C., Schatman, M. E., Rauck, R. L., Van Zundert, J., Kraus, M., Primorac, D., ... & Fanelli, G. (2017). Past, Present, and Future of Informed Consent in Pain and Genomics Research: Challenges Facing Global Medical Community. Pain Practice, 17(1), 8-15. Available here