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The OHRP and SUPPORT — Another View

A group of physicians, bioethicists, and scholars in allied fields agrees with the Office for Human Research Protections about the informed-consent documents in SUPPORT.

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Ruth Macklin, Ph.D.
Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Lois Shepherd, J.D.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, and School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Alice Dreger, Ph.D.
Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Adrienne Asch, Ph.D.
Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University, New York, NY

Francoise Baylis, Ph.D.
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Howard Brody, M.D., Ph.D.
Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Larry R. Churchill, Ph.D.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Carl H. Coleman, J.D.
School of Law, Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ

Ethan Cowan, M.D.
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

Janet Dolgin, Ph.D., J.D.
Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Jocelyn Downie, S.J.D.
Faculties of Medicine and Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Rebecca Dresser, J.D.
Schools of Law and Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

M. Carmela Epright, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, Furman University, Greenville, SC

Ellen K. Feder, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy and Religion, American University, Washington, DC

Leonard H. Glantz, J.D.
Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Law, Boston, MA

Michael A. Grodin, M.D.
Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA

William Hoffman, M.D.
Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Barry Hoffmaster, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

David Hunter, Ph.D.
Social Health Science, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Ana S. Iltis, Ph.D.
Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, and Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Jonathan D. Kahn, J.D., Ph.D.
School of Law, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN

Nancy M.P. King, J.D.
Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, and Center for Bioethics, Health, and Society, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Rory Kraft, Ph.D.
Department of English and Humanities, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA

Rebecca Kukla, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Lewis Leavitt, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D.
Department of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI

Trudo Lemmens, Lic.Jur., LL.M., D.C.L.
Faculties of Law and Medicine and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Hilde Lindemann, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Mary Faith Marshall, Ph.D.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Jon F. Merz, J.D., Ph.D.
Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Frances H. Miller, J.D.
School of Law, Boston University, Boston, MA

Margaret E. Mohrmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities and Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Haavi Morreim, J.D., Ph.D.
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Meryl Nass, M.D.
St. Joseph Family Medicine at the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME

James L. Nelson, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

John H. Noble, Jr., Ph.D., M.S.W.
Social Work and Rehabilitation Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Elizabeth Reis, Ph.D.
Women's and Gender Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D.
Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Anita Silvers, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

Aron C. Sousa, M.D.
Department of Medicine and Office of the Dean, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Roy G. Spece, Jr., J.D.
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Carson Strong, Ph.D.
Institutional Review Board, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Judith P. Swazey, Ph.D.
Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA

Leigh Turner, Ph.D.
Center for Bioethics and School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Funding and Disclosures

Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org.

Editor's note: On this topic, see also Drazen JM, Solomon CG, Greene MF, Informed consent and SUPPORT (N Engl J Med 2013;368:1929-31); Magnus D, Caplan AL, Risk, consent, and SUPPORT (N Engl J Med 2013;368:1864-5); Carlo WA, Bell EF, Walsh MC, Oxygen-saturation targets in extremely preterm infants (N Engl J Med 2013;368:1949-50); Hudson KL, Guttmacher AE, Collins FS, In support of SUPPORT — a view from the NIH (N Engl J Med 2013;368:2349-51); and Wilfond BS, Magnus D, Antommaria AH, et al., The OHRP and SUPPORT (N Engl J Med 2013. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1307008).

This letter was published on June 26, 2013, and updated on June 27, 2013, at NEJM.org.

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