Staged-and-tailored informed consent: what makes it ethical?

Dr Scott Kim 

RCTs embedded in clinical settings with high fidelity to pragmatic principles can be impossible to conduct if a traditional informed consent is required. This talk addressed how staged consent models can be conducted ethically by: (1) reviewing the conditions under which altered/modified consent or waivers of consent are usually considered to be ethical; and (2) engaging the key ethical challenges and objections to staged consent.