Keys to improving the informed consent process in research: Highlights of the i‐CONSENT project.

HUMAN research subjects; PARTICIPANT-researcher relationships; SERIAL publications; CLINICAL medicine research; CULTURAL pluralism; INFORMED consent (Medical law); AT-risk people; COMMUNICATION

The article focuses on ethical and legal governance of all aspects of informed consent in research that becomes increasingly extensive and complex. Topics include examines instead of a single directive, informed consent is governed by a series of international rules applied to biomedical research, clinical trials and biobanks, while various ethical guidelines for research have been published by different international bodies.