618 Flexible Cystoscopy: The Differences in Patient Recall of Post Procedural Complications When Using Verbal Consent as Opposed to Written Consent

Informed consent for cataract surgery: patient understanding of verbal, written, and videotaped information.

PURPOSE To determine the effectiveness of verbal, written, and videotaped descriptions of cataract surgery on patients' understanding of the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives. SETTING Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. DESIGN Randomized prospective study. METHODS Patients eligible for cataract surgery were randomized into 1 of 4 arms of the in...

Flexible Access to Patient Data through e-Consent

The advances in healthcare and information technology are shifting more and more the ownership of data from medical institutions and doctors to individual citizens. However, since the medical information of an individual is confidential, the only basis for sharing it, is through prior informed consent which will regulate access to his private healthcare data. This paper highlights challenges in...

Helping patients recall surgical consent.

Using video-taped examples of standardized patient to teach medical students taking informed consent

Introduction: Medical student should be trained in medicalethics and one of the most essential issues in this field is takinginformed consents. In this research, we compared the effect ofeffectiveness of teaching methods on students’ ability in takinginformed consent from patients.Methods: This semi-experimental study was carried out on fiftyeight subjects from the 4th-year students of Shiraz U...

Patients' perceptions of written consent: questionnaire study.

OBJECTIVE To examine patients' understanding of the status, function, and remit of written consent to surgery. DESIGN Prospective questionnaire study. Questionnaires were sent to patients within one month of surgery. Responses were analysed with frequencies and single variable analyses. SETTING Large teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 732 patients who had undergone surgery in obstetrics and ...