Association of Electronic Surgical Consent Forms With Entry Error Rates

Abstract

We acknowledge Philip D. Bailey, DO; David E. Cohen, MD; and Charles Dean Kurth, MD, for their role in developing a universal screening program for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in children undergoing surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No compensation was received for their role in this investigation. 1. Wu Z, McGoogan JM. Characteristics of and important lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in China: summary of a report of 72 314 cases from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. JAMA.

Will obtaining digital consent from patients in advance of undergoing procedures improve the quality of the consent process?

“…A US study comparing e-consent forms for same day surgery with paper consent showed the former contained fewer omissions and errors. It concluded their use could reduce operative room delays and medicolegal risk for surgeons and institutions 5…”

Lessons Learned for Identifying and Annotating Permissions in Clinical Consent Forms

“…The informed consent process is woven into the fabric of health care ethics, and documentation of informed consent must be included in patients' records as evidence of express permissions for treatment or clinical procedures. 1,2 Although there are benefits to eConsent, [3][4][5] the reality is that consent forms remain largely paper-based in health care settings. 6 Permissions are typically interpreted through manual review on a case-by-case basis; this presents significant issues in terms of scalability and consistency of interpretation.…”

Digitalizing the Clinical Research Informed Consent Process: Assessing the Participant Experience in Comparison With Traditional Paper-Based Methods

“…16 A recent surgical consent study using a sample size of 200 showed that eIC decreased paper consenting error rates from 32% to 1%. 17 Another surgical consent completeness study showed that using eIC in 29 cases decreased paper-based consenting errors when compared with 160 paper-based cases from 10% to 40% to zero. 18…”

“…16 A recent surgical consent study using a sample size of 200 showed that eIC decreased paper consenting error rates from 32% to 1%. 17 Another surgical consent completeness study showed that using eIC in 29 cases decreased paperbased consenting errors when compared with 160 paperbased cases from 10% to 40% to zero. 18 To address these issues, we implemented an in-house developed eIC application for CR consenting in 2017 to support participants across the previously described four key outcomes.…”