PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 3 September 1976, pp. 466
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A Question on Informed Consent and Measles Vaccine

Gary Gorlick M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.1

1 Medical Arts Pediatric Medical Group, Inc., 6221 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90048

In this time of increasing interest and action in the medicolegal aspects of medical practice, and more specifically in the area of "informed consent," the possibility that some cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis may have been, and are being, caused by the routine measles vaccine is of real concern. Are we pediatricians obliged to inform parents of this possible association? More basically, just what information, and in how much detail, does the Academy advise the practitioner to relate to the child's parents when immunizations are given?