AIM To evaluate the levels of satisfaction and opinions on the usefulness of the informed consent form currently in use in our Paediatric Surgery Department. MATERIALS AND METHODS DESIGN Qualitative study carried out via interviews of senior paediatric surgeons, based on a questionnaire built up from reference criteria in the literature and public health law. RESULTS Physicians with betw...

BACKGROUND Despite much debate, there is little evidence on consequences of consent procedures for residual tissue use. Here, we investigated these consequences for the availability of residual tissue for medical research, clinical practice, and patient informedness. METHODS We conducted a randomised clinical trial with three arms in six hospitals. Participants, patients from whom tissue had ...

BACKGROUND Clients have explicit desires or requests for services when visiting hospitals; inadequate discovery of their needs may result in dissatisfaction. Patient satisfaction influences retention in HIV care, adherence to HAART and serves as determinant to HIV suppression. This study's objectives were to quantify clients' satisfaction with HIV services in Bamenda and determine relationship ...

BACKGROUND Given the large number of interventions of uncertain effectiveness, research on communicating uncertainty is needed to examine its impact on patients' health decisions. OBJECTIVE To examine physicians' communication of uncertainty and its impact on patients' decisions and decision satisfaction. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Participants included female patients seen in a brea...

BACKGROUND Patients' opinion regarding services has acquired great importance. Patient satisfaction is playing an increasingly important role in quality of care reforms and health-care delivery. The study aimed to measure patient satisfaction in a tertiary care hospital in order to know the patients' perspectives and expectations of the services and make appropriate improvements accordingly. ...

Background Implementation of patient preferences for use of electronic health records for research has been traditionally limited to identifiable data. Tiered e-consent for use of de-identified data has traditionally been deemed unnecessary or impractical for implementation in clinical settings. Methods We developed a web-based tiered informed consent tool called informed consent for clinical...

background tuberculosis (tb) continues to be a major public health problem worldwide. in developing countries, the burden of the disease is explosive, as 95% of global tb patients reside and 98% of global tb deaths occur in these regions. patients’ satisfaction may play a major role in adherence to medications and hence improve tuberculosis cure rate. objectives the current study aimed firstly ...

We conducted an initial survey of core medical and neurology trainee doctors on consent practice in a specialist neurology hospital. Over a 2-week period, data on LPs carried out on the wards were prospectively collected. Patients rated their understanding of LP and experience of the consenting process using a visual analogue scale, where zero was ‘totally disagree’ and 10 was ‘totally agree’. ...

Background. Computed-tomography (CT) is increasingly performed among patients who visit an emergency department (ED), many of whom require the administration of intravenous contrast, to make an accurate diagnosis of their condition and offer prompt treatment. Though the safety profile of new intravenous contrast agents has improved, patients are still exposed to significant risk from potentiall...