Developing an Informed Consent Process With Patient Understanding in Mind

Developing an informed consent process with patient understanding in mind.

Informed consent and patient understanding of blood transfusion.

BACKGROUND Obtaining separate informed consent for blood transfusion is mandatory in some countries. Although patients should be informed about risks and benefits of transfusion, studies suggest this does not happen routinely in the UK and the patient perspective is lacking in the current literature. AIM To explore provision of information and the consent process for patients receiving blood ...

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...

Use of a simplified consent form to facilitate patient understanding of informed consent for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

BACKGROUND Surgical informed consent forms can be complicated for patients to read and understand. We created a consent form with key information presented in bulleted texts and diagrams combined in a graphical format to facilitate the understanding of information during the verbal consent discussion. METHODS This prospective, randomized study involved 70 adult patients awaiting cholecystecto...

Surgical Informed Consent Process in Neurosurgery

The doctrine of informed consent, as opposed to medical paternalism, is intended to facilitate patient autonomy by allowing patient participation in the medical decision-making process. However, regrettably, the surgical informed consent (SIC) process is invariably underestimated and reduced to a documentary procedure to protect physicians from legal liability. Moreover, residents are rarely tr...