Informed consent has undergone a transformation from an ethical concept to a legal doctrine. It is based on the ethical principles of self-determination and autonomy. Over the past several years, courts have established physician liability based on the failure to obtain adequate informed consent. It is the duty of all gastrointestinal endoscopists to obtain legally adequate informed consent bef...

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...

Salah satu pelayanan rekam medis yaitu mengisi formulir persetujuan setelah mendapat informasi yang jelas merupakan salah bentuk sebagai indikator standar minimal rumah sakit. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah analisis kuantitatif dan kualitatif terhadap informed consent berdasarkan pengetahuan partisipan yaitu. H.30 surat pernyataan RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang. Berdasarkan hasil persentase kelen...

1. Please clarify that the Consent for Publication form you have attached is from the patient himself. This is still unclear due to your statement still reading “Written informed consent was obtained from the patient’s daughter for publication of this case report and any accompanying images”. Please state clearly in the ‘Consent for publication’ statement that the patient provided written infor...

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...

Informed consent process is an integral component of conducting clinical research ethically. Prior to giving an informed consent to participate in clinical research, it is important that the participant has fully understood all the components of a patient information leaflet and the consent form. The issue of comprehension of informed consent form and patient information leaflet has acquired pa...

A colleague recently commented about the practice of anesthesia consent in India: " In our country every institute has a separate consent for anesthesia. " Such a state of affairs is arguably desirable but not true. The practice of obtaining a specific consent for anesthesia separate from the consent for surgery (separate anesthesia consent) is not uniform across hospitals within this country o...

BACKGROUND Standard consent forms result in highly variable communication between patients and physicians. To enhance the consent process and facilitate shared decision making, we developed a World Wide Web-based program, PREDICT (Patient Refined Expectations for Deciding Invasive Cardiac Treatments), to systematically embed patient-specific estimates of death, bleeding, and restenosis into ind...