Abstract
We presented brief reports on the status and problems associated with informed consent from the viewpoint of patients' relatives, particularly of those patients suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
We believe that the process of informed consent is a very useful one in that it advances skills and techniques in the medical field and fosters a good mutual understanding of this grave disease in both the patients' kin and the medical staffs involved.
We hope that informed consent regarding ALS will be achieved to a yet much higher degree.
