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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 15, 2015January 16, 2023

The first BMJ reference to patient consent

CONSENT should always be sought before any medical intervention, including for screening/case-finding.

I had a look through the British Medical Journal (BMJ) archives. The first titled BMJ reference to “consent” was published in April 1948:

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