The aim of this study was to determine the compliance rate of medical officers in relation to obtaining informed consent from the consumer prior to a booking for elective surgery in the Western District Health Service, a regional hospital service in Western Victoria, Australia. Data on elective bookings was gathered from 1 February 2005 to 31 May 2005. Elective Request for Admission forms that ...

Providing an informed consent has an important role in promotion of medical treatments and reduction of judiciary litigations in this process. Today with cultural changes and wide propagation that is usually charming, the request for aesthetic surgery has an increasing trend. These problems with complexity of cosmetic surgeries lead to deeper differences of information between plastic surgeons ...

OBJECTIVE The aim is to evaluate if patients reach the level of competence that enables them to make the best decision for themselves with oral and written informed consent process that is legally valid. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included 62 patients who applied to Ege University Hospital Department of General Surgery Endocrine Surgery Clinics and in whom oral and written informed conse...

Informed consent is a foundational concept necessary for ethical conduct of clinical research and practice. It is a technical tool that shifts the autonomy to decide whether a medical procedure should be performed-from the doctor to the patient. However there is an ongoing discussion in bioethical circles on the level of comprehension of the informed consent process by the patients and research...

BACKGROUND To obtain informed consent is considered an integral part of modern clinical practice. It works as a safeguard of patient's rights and minimizes the chances of legal action against the physician in case of any complication arising from the proposed therapy. Objective was to evaluate the practice of informed consent in patients undergoing surgery in a University hospital. METHODS A ...

The association between procedure volume at institutions and outcomes of cancer surgeries has been widely published in the medical literature; discussed in the lay press; and, during the past 15 years, incorporated into quality improvement endeavors. In certain cases, institutional volume has become a proxy for quality. Despite the vast amount of retrospective data on this topic, physicians gen...