Griffith Richard
Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
Br J Community Nurs. 2017 Oct 2;22(10):511-513. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.10.511.
The Declaration of Helsinki requires that health care research takes place with the informed consent of those who participate in the study. This approach upholds the autonomy of the participants, but restricts research to subjects who have decision-making capacity. The Mental Capacity Act 2005 introduced safeguards that enable researchers to investigate the care and treatment of people with incapacity, while protecting this vulnerable patient group. These safeguards allow people who lack decision-making capacity to benefit from research findings. In this article, Richard Griffith outlines the requirements that must be met when district nurses conduct research on subjects who lack decision-making capacity.
《赫尔辛基宣言》要求医疗保健研究须在研究参与者知情同意的情况下进行。这种做法维护了参与者的自主权，但将研究限制于具有决策能力的受试者。2005年的《精神能力法案》引入了保障措施，使研究人员能够对无行为能力者的护理和治疗进行调查，同时保护这一弱势群体。这些保障措施使缺乏决策能力的人能够从研究结果中受益。在本文中，理查德·格里菲思概述了地区护士对缺乏决策能力的受试者进行研究时必须满足的要求。
