An audit on knowledge and practice of obtaining informed consent for invasive procedures among intern medical officers

Chapter 48. Procedures For Obtaining Informed Consent

An Audit of the Knowledge and Attitudes of Doctors towards Surgical Informed Consent (SIC)

Background The Surgical Informed Consent (SIC) is a comprehensive process that establishes an informationbased agreement between the patient and his doctor to undertake a clearly outlined medical or surgical intervention. It is neither a casual formality nor a casually signed piece of paper. The present study was designed to audit the current knowledge and attitudes of doctors towards SIC at a ...

Knowledge and practices of obtaining informed consent for medical procedures among specialist physicians: questionnaire study in 6 Croatian hospitals.

AIM. To assess physicians' knowledge and practices for obtaining patients' informed consent to medical procedures. METHODS. An anonymous and voluntary survey of knowledge and practices for obtaining informed consent was conducted among 470 physicians (63% response rate) working in 6 hospitals: 93 specialists in anesthesiology, 166 in internal medicine, and 211 in surgery. RESULTS. Only 54% phys...

Quality of informed consent for invasive procedures.

OBJECTIVE To assess quality of informed consent among patients undergoing procedures and patient's preferences about decision-making. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of hospitalized patients about informed consent before surgery or other procedures. Preference for decision-making was elicited in hospitalized and ambulatory patients. SETTING Large academic general hospital and 10 general clini...

obtaining informed consent in an illiterate population

background esophageal cancer is highly prevalent among the turkman people in northeastern iran. in order to evaluate its etiology, there is an on-going prospective cohort study in this area involving approximately 50000 subjects over the age of 40 years. the majority of these subjects are illiterate, thus obtaining inâ­formed consent is very important and difficult. methods initially, we explai...