Consent for Anterior Resection: How Well Do We Consent for Surgical Risks?

Informed consent in pediatric surgery: Do parents understand the risks?

OBJECTIVE To investigate parent understanding of the risks of pediatric ear, nose, and throat surgery after counseling with and without the use of informational aids. DESIGN Prospective, randomized trial. SETTING Academic tertiary care center. PARTICIPANTS Parents of children undergoing ear, nose, and throat surgery. INTERVENTIONS Parents were randomized to receive standard informed con...

The Quality of Obtaining Surgical Informed Consent for Cesarean Section in Public Hospitals of Iran

Abstract: Introduction: Nowadays, about 50-65% of births in Iran occur by Cesarean Section (CS). Informed consent (IC) is one of the most important ethical, legal and professional requirements of a surgical procedure. Objectives: This study aims to assess the quality of obtaining surgical IC from women underwent CS in public hospitals of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this analytical study ...

Informed consent: what is it? Who can give it? How do we improve it?

The freedom to choose is integral to our daily lives, directs our interactions with patients, and is a key component of our conduct of human-subjects research. Most of the historical errors and atrocities in human experimentation had at their core a failure of consent. In response to those events, national and international law developed to direct researchers to a process of informed consent to...

Helping patients recall surgical consent.

Understood Consent Versus Informed Consent: A New Paradigm for Obtaining Consent for Pediatric Research Studies

All too often the informed consent process is viewed by members of research teams as a challenge of getting a parent or young person's signature on a form. Informed consent is, however, much more than a signed form. Rather, it is a process, often iterative, in which the parent or young person is given sufficient information about a study in order that they can make a truly informed decision abo...