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In an effort to validate the common criticisms of informed consent, we have reviewed representative empirical studies and have found that for a variety of methodological, conceptual, and pragmatic reasons, empirical findings currently offer no conclusive evidence that informed consent either is or is not feasible. Thus, it is imperative that authorities charged with making law and policy involving informed consent not rely on these studies as authoritative. (JAMA1981;246:2473-2477)
Alan Meisel (Fri,) studied this question.