Ethical Issues on Informed Consent in Biobank Research
10.11842/wst.2013.04.021
- VernacularTitle:生物信息库研究中知情同意签署所引起的伦理学问题探讨
- Author:
Hui LI
;
Zhaohui LIANG
;
Lingfeng ZENG
;
Jun LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Biobank;
informed consent;
medical ethics;
tissue residue
- From:
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
2013;(4):729-734
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The biobank for medical researchers is a resource of significant utility , which also causes a series of ethical issues. For example, the question of what kind of informed consent should be adopted for the biobanking tissue residue, whether related study can be conducted without the donors' consent and how to accomplish the biobank research. Based on ethical principles of donation, individual rights of donor and common interest of the society, this study suggested the informed consent that to which extent can be accepted for biobank and which type should be adopted in different scenes with two feasible choices. One is the irreversible, and the other is the reversible anonymization process for samples. The necessity and rationality of informed consent for biobank con-struction were also evaluated in order to provide references for the ethical practice of biobank research.