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07:54 Dec 2, 2008
English to German translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Health Care Additional field(s): Law (general), Medical (general)
English term or phrase:informed consent
Definition from US Food and Drug Administration: The process of obtaining a patient's permission for a procedure after the patient and doctor have discussed the risks, benefits, and alternatives of the procedure and the patient understands them.
Example sentence(s):
As long as the patient is mentally and physically able to make his or her own decisions, medical care cannot begin unless the patient gives informed consent. American Cancer Society
Prior to surgery, your child's physician will give you a careful explanation of what procedure will be performed and the risks involved. You will be asked to sign an informed consent form which states in detail that you understand the risks and benefits of your child's surgery. Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York
To give informed consent to all procedures and treatment to be rendered, and to have questions answered; and to refuse and/or to discontinue procedures and treatment and to be informed of the consequences of such a decision. Washington Adventist Hospital
Definition: Habe es viele Male in Protokoll-Synopsen für klinische Studien so gesehen. In der Regel, wenn der Prozess die Information mit einschließt (nicht wie in der o.g. Definition), auch als "Information und Einwilligungserklärung"
1) This isn't the first time that the source is ambiguous. It was similar with the term "understory". So first of all, the English terms should be defined clearer.
2) I am sure the automatic selection process will provide wrong results as it doesn't take into account the valuable discussions. By the way, sometimes the example sentences are not even Google hits but a translation of the English example sentence. That's not serious.
3) All this a bit frustrating and I wonder whether it's worth spending valuable time on this kind of projects
informed consent form = Einwilligungserklärung Definitely a valid and good translation. Try to use the term "Einwilligungserklärung" as a heading/term for the FDA definition and you will notice that it does not really fit this context.
The problem is in my opinion, that we do not have a German 1-to-1 expression for the term "informed consent". Claudia's answer below "informierte Einwilligung" is according to Wikipedia "eine Wortschöpfung nach dem engl. Vorbildsbegriff informed consent". In Germany we do have the term "Aufklärung des Patienten" which concentrates very strongly on the "information" part in "informed consent". This "Aufklärung" is normally documented in the "Einwilligungsformular" and the patient signs a "Einwilligungserklärung" confirming the he/she "umfassend und ausführlich aufgeklärt wurde" und "sein Einverständnis zu Eingriff XXXX gibt". This whole process is called "informed consent" in English. We do not have (as far as I know) any direct translation for this process. Another interesting reference was mentioned by Gabriele "http://www.kup.at/journals/summary/285.html" which explains part of the problem.
In my opinion the GBK approach does not really support the kind of discussion we just started.
I agree with Siegfried. In my opinion, "Einwilligungserklärung" is the form. However, in some texts "informed consent" is just short for "informed consent form" and can be translated with "Einwilligungserklärung".
It is in my opinion obvious that the "Glossary building team" does not distinguish between "informed consent" as used in the FDA definition which describes a process and the use of the term "informed consent" as used in one of the example sentences, where it is part of the term "informed consent form". This ambiguity is nicely reflected in the answers below and is in my opinion a nice example of the weakness of the whole GBK project.
The way the system works, the answer with the highest number of agrees will be chosen. In this case, this answer will be completely wrong.
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Einwilligungserklärung
Definition from own experience or research: Habe es viele Male in Protokoll-Synopsen für klinische Studien so gesehen. In der Regel, wenn der Prozess die Information mit einschließt (nicht wie in der o.g. Definition), auch als "Information und Einwilligungserklärung"
Example sentence(s):
Wenn der Patient geistig und körperlich in der Lage ist, seine eigenen Entscheidungen zu fällen, kann die meidzinische Betreuung nicht beginnen, bevor der Patient die Einwilligungserklärung erteilt hat. - eines der o.g. Beispiele übersetzt
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peer agreement (net): +9