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[Proposal for participation in intensive care and emergency medicine studies for patients unable to give informed
M Kochanek1, G Grass2, B Böll3
1Medizinische Fakultät und Universitätsklinik Köln, Med. Klinik I für Innere Medizin, Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO), Universität zu Köln, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937, Köln, Deutschland. matthias.kochanek@uk-koeln.de.
Abstract:
When conducting clinical trials in intensive care and emergency medicine, physicians, ethics committees, and legal experts have differing views regarding the inclusion of patients who are incapable of giving consent. These different views on the participation of patients who are not capable of giving consent also complicate how clinical trials are prepared and conducted. Based on the results of a literature search, a consensus model (Cologne Model) was developed by physicians performing clinical research, ethics committees, and lawyers in order to provide patients, those scientifically responsible for the study, ethics committees, and probate (guardianship) judges with a maximum of patient safety and legal certainty, while simultaneously enabling scientific research.
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