Patient Understanding and Implications for Consent for Vascular Treatment and Consent

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...

comparison of zoe and vitapex for canal treatment of necrotic primary teeth

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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 ...

Informed consent for clinical treatment.

Beyond Consent: Implications of Ubicomp for Privacy

Ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, integrates technology into our everyday environments. Ubicomp fundamentally alters privacy by creating continuous detailed data flows. The privacy challenge is particularly acute in the case of home-based health care where vulnerable populations risk enforced technological intimacy. The promise of ubicomp is also particularly great in the area of home-based ubi...