Informing the consent process.
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چکیده
Because the legal and ethical aspects of informed consent are often foremost in clinicians’ minds, it is easy to forget that the purpose of informed consent is to aid in decision making. Informed consent forms, for example, are often written with legal and institutional priorities in mind,1 and patients in turn assume that the primary purpose of such forms is to protect physicians and their institutions.2 Indeed, it is understandable that clinicians may take little intrinsic interest in the informed consent process when seen as an external legal requirement.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes
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تاریخ انتشار 2008