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Alan Meisel, JD; Loren H. Roth, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1981;246(21):2473-2477.

Abstract
In an effort to validate the common criticisms of informed consent, we have reviewed representative empirical studies and have found that for a variety of methodological, conceptual, and pragmatic reasons, empirical findings currently offer no conclusive evidence that informed consent either is or is not feasible. Thus, it is imperative that authorities charged with making law and policy involving informed consent not rely on these studies as authoritative.

(JAMA 1981;246:2473-2477)

Author Affiliations
From the Schools of Law (Mr Meisel) and Medicine (Dr Roth and Mr Meisel), Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Law and Psychiatry Program, University of Pittsburgh.

Footnotes
Read before the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, May 8, 1980.

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