Modern-day ethical and medicolegal requirements dictate that patients are provided with a reasonable description of the risks and benefits of a recommended surgical procedure before it is performed.

I work in an ambulatory surgery center. On an informed consent, does the donor site need to be identified on the consent form? For example, a typical consent form might say, "excision of cyst right ...

Introduction: The purpose of the informed consent (IC) form is to enable patients to make a conscious choice based on complete and comprehensible information about a planned surgical procedure, its ...

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Shelby Jennett has a neuroscience major and a philosophy minor and she is the 2023-24 Honzel Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. The ...

NEW DELHI: In an important judgment, Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (DSCDRC) said that merely asking patients to sign a consent form not enough as they ought to be informed about ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

The aims of ideal preoperative informed consent include educating the patient adequately to enable an autonomous decision to be made without causing undue anxiety. We study how the paternalistic and ...