0 agreement or permission to do something from someone who has been given full information about the possible effects or results:
This procedure would never be done on a patient who was not able to give informed consent.
It is illegal to body pierce a person under 18 without the signed, informed consent of that person's parent or legal guardian.
Too often, these experiments are conducted with meager oversight and without proper informed consent.
The president did not seek the informed consent of the public for the war.
Ninety-five people volunteered to participate and answered a face-to-face questionnaire in the presence of an interpreter, after written informed consent was obtained.
This thinking is probably misguided on several points, but it is particularly mistaken inasmuch as it casts informed consent as a mere protective device.
The competency quagmire: clarification of the nursing perspective concerning the issues of competence and informed consent.
Quality assurance specialists also carefully monitored informed consent procedures and checked responses for consistency and obvious errors.
