Informed consent in trauma: Does written information improve patient recall of risks? A prospective randomised study

Smith, Howard W.; Manjaly, Joseph; Yousri, Taher; Upadhyay, Neil; Taylor, Hazel; Nicol, Stephen; Livingstone, James

doi:10.1016/j.injury.2011.06.419

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“…This finding is consistent with previous studies, which have shown that providing patients with written information increases their recall, knowledge and satisfaction with information [39,40].…”

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Endometrial cancer survivors are unsatisfied with received information about diagnosis, treatment and follow-up: A study from the population-based PROFILES registry

Nicolaije

Husson

Ezendam

et al. 2012

Patient Education and Counseling

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Endometrial cancer survivors are unsatisfied with received information about diagnosis, treatment and follow-up: A study from the population-based PROFILES registry

Nicolaije

Husson

Ezendam

et al. 2012

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Therefore, having open communication with parents would hopefully help make them more comfortable. The results of the current study were consistent with other studies (Aldridge, 2005;Carnevale, 1990;Colville, et al, 2009;and Noyes, 1998) (Johnson & Sandford, 2005;Smith et al, 2012). Additionally, Latour et al (2011) noted that parents ranked their need to receive both written and oral information as very important, whereas health care professionals did not see this as important.…”

Section: The Importance Of Informationsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…An example of interventions that have been shown to work is a transfer protocol with both written and verbal information provided about the transfer (Bouve, et al 1999;Linton, Grant, & Pellegrini, 2008;Mitchell & Courtney, 2004;VanWaning et al, 2005). The utilization of both written and verbal information as a method of communication might ensure parents had better recall of the information (Johnson & Sandford, 2005;Smith et al, 2012). The included information could be site-specific (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

Parents' Experience of the Transition with their Child from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to the Hospital Ward: Searching for Comfort Across Transitions

Berube

Fothergill‐Bourbonnais

Thomas

et al. 2014

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

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“…This goes against the guidelines and legal issues that patients should be informed about what they want to know. 23 Previous qualitative research has shown that many physicians do not believe that it is necessary to obtain a formal consent after providing the patients with enough information. 11,24 The purpose of informed consent is to permit the ordinary reasonable patient to make an intelligent decision, based on the information provided by the physician.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public and private surgeon attitude towards informed consent

Alazmi

2018

Alexandria Journal of Medicine

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Background: Informed consent ranks as one of the most prominent issues in the recent bioethics literature due to increasing number of medico-legal cases and, the introduction of new national guidelines. Objectives: The aim of this study is to examine the attitude of surgeons working in public and private hospitals towards informed consent. Subjects and methods: This study is a cross-sectional survey that was conducted from January to June 2016 in all five governmental general hospitals, and two private hospitals in Kuwait. A selfadministered questionnaire was used to collect data from the surgeons working in the selected hospitals including six domains related to informed consent. Results: The majority of surgeons believed that informed consent routinely achieved in their current practice and that all doctors should receive formal training on informed consent, though only 35.7% of public surgeon received training compared to 76.7% of private surgeons. Although 82.7% of public surgeons believed that written information leaflets should be provided for patients, only 41.1% provide their patients with these type of leaflets. There was no significant difference between public and private surgeons regarding the purpose of informed consent except that higher proportion of private surgeons believed that informed consent improves the doctor-patient relationship. There was an agreement between public and private surgeons that junior doctors should not conduct the informed consent. Higher proportion of private than public surgeons stated that the content of informed consent was affected by patient's age, gender, and social class whereas level of education was thought by public surgeons. Conclusion: Private surgeons differ from those in the public hospitals in that they tend to look at informed consent as not only an ethical and legal obligation, but also of benefit to patients. The introduction of formal training on informed consent in both types of hospitals are recommended.

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Informed consent in trauma: Does written information improve patient recall of risks? A prospective randomised study

Cited by 32 publications

References 14 publications

Endometrial cancer survivors are unsatisfied with received information about diagnosis, treatment and follow-up: A study from the population-based PROFILES registry

Endometrial cancer survivors are unsatisfied with received information about diagnosis, treatment and follow-up: A study from the population-based PROFILES registry

Parents' Experience of the Transition with their Child from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to the Hospital Ward: Searching for Comfort Across Transitions

Public and private surgeon attitude towards informed consent

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