There has been an increased focus over the past couple of years on patient rights, resulting in a renewed emphasis on informed consent by healthcare regulators, such as The Joint Commission. This ...

Obtaining a patient’s consent is not the same as having a patient sign a consent form. While a written, countersigned document provides important evidence if consent is disputed in court, in order for ...

Increasingly, medical procedures in the United States are being performed in ASCs. According to statistics released earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center ...

Patients may have signed a consent form, but in too many cases they don’t have any idea what they have agreed to, according to two Cleveland Clinic doctors. But physicians can do more to make sure the ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality teamed up with the Joint Commission and Abt Associates to offer free online courses for hospital leaders and others to learn how to improve the patient ...

A group of UAB researchers developed a web-based decision support tool in their recent publication, “Patient, Nurse, Medical Assistant, and Surgeon Perspectives Inform the Development of a Decision ...

While many people indicate “I have read and agree to the terms and conditions”, very few actually take the time to read through everything to truly understand the small print. One journalist estimates ...

Informed consent is one of the most important aspects of conducting ethical research with human participants. Respecting the autonomy of research participants, the investigator must provide complete ...

A survey of patients receiving treatment in a teaching facility found that patients prefer to be informed of trainee participation in their care, and consent rates appear to vary based on scenarios ...

Informed consent (IC) struggles to meet the ethical principles it strives to embody in the context of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Patients often participate in multiple clinical trials ...