OBJECTIVE To establish the level of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the service received by patients attending the Outpatient Pharmacy regarding the care received. METHOD Two-month long cross-sectional study. The study included all patients who had attended the Outpatient Pharmacy (OP) and had given their consent. Satisfaction was measured using a previously validated survey (Likert-typ...

BACKGROUND Standards for good practice in clinical risk management issued by the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts indicate that "appropriate information is provided to patients on the risks and benefits of proposed treatment, and of the alternatives available before a signature on a consent form is sought". AIMS To investigate the practicability and patient acceptability of a postal info...

BACKGROUND In the setting of coronary angiography, generic consent forms permit highly variable communication between patients and physicians. Even with the existence of multiple risk models, clinicians have been unable to readily access them and thus provide patients with vague estimations regarding risks of the procedure. METHODS We created a web-based vehicle, PREDICT, for embedding patien...

Informed consent for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy requires that the patient understands the nature of, and reason for, the proposed procedure, and that he or she is given adequate time to deliberate and ask questions. In a prospective study, 200 outpatients completed questionnaires immediately before, and one day after, endoscopy, which assessed satisfaction with information provided by: (a...

Objective: To find out preoperative informed consent practice in a tertiary care public sector teaching hospital. Settings: General Surgical Units of Civil Hospital Karachi Design: Prospective observational study. Duration: January 2005 to March 2005 Patients and Methods: Patients who had undergone elective surgery were interviewed randomly during the study period under routine practice conditi...

Informed consent is the cornerstone of human research subject protection. Many subjects sign consent documents without understanding the study purpose, procedures, risks, benefits, and their rights. Proof of comprehension is not required and rarely obtained. Understanding might improve by using an interactive system with multiple options for hearing, viewing and reading about the study and the ...

background: job satisfaction is referred to a set of individual’s positive and negative attitudes toward his/her job. personality traits of individuals are among the factors contributing to job satisfaction. according to dunn model, people receive information based on their self-regulatory strategies and sensory thresholds. then behave accordingly and in response to the environment. this paper ...

Methods With the approval of the Danish Data Protection Agency, all incoming patients with traumatic lacerations, during one weeks time in January, were asked for informed consent for a follow-up study. An evaluation of both treatment and result was made by a telephone survey 2-4 weeks time after injury, using a structured questionnaire. Patients were asked to score their overall satisfaction o...