1998/01/01 by Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill, Arlene M. Davis +14 · 1 citation
Health Professions · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Alternative medicine #Biomedical Ethics and Regulation #Clinical trial #Ethics in Clinical Research #Ethics in medical practice #Family medicine #Historical Studies in Latin America #Informed consent #Intensive care medicine #MEDLINE #Medical research #Medicine #Pathology #Political science #Sociology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040324
openalex publication_date 1998/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Summary Points:\nA key component of informed consent to participate in medical research is the understanding that research is not the same as treatment.\nHowever, studies have found that some research participants do not appreciate important differences between research and treatment, a phenomenon called “therapeutic misconception.”\nA consistent definition of therapeutic misconception is missing from the literature, and this hinders attempts to define its prevalence or ways to reduce it.\nThis paper proposes a new definition and describes how it can be operationalized.