<Li> Be carried out under all laws and regulations (i.e., Emergency Research Consent Waiver) including those pertinent to the FDA . </Li> <P> While informed consent is a basic right and should be carried out effectively, if a patient is incapacitated due to injury or illness, it is still important that patients benefit from emergency experimentation . The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) joined together to create federal guidelines to permit emergency research, without informed consent . However, they can only proceed with the research if they obtain a waiver of informed consent (WIC) or an emergency exception from informed consent (EFIC). </P> <P> Informed consent is a technical term first used by attorney, Paul G. Gebhard, in a medical malpractice United States court case in 1957 . In tracing its history, some scholars have suggested tracing the history of checking for any of these practices: </P> <Ol> <Li> A patient agrees to a health intervention based on an understanding of it . </Li> <Li> The patient has multiple choices and is not compelled to choose a particular one . </Li> <Li> The consent includes giving permission . </Li> </Ol>

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