Patients' perception of quality of pre-operative informed consent in athens, Greece: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to perform a study to record and evaluate patients' views of the way surgeons communicate informed consent (IC) in Greece.

Methodology/principal findings

A prospective pilot study was carried out in Athens from 9/2007 to 4/2008. The study sample was extracted from patients, operated by eight different surgeons, who volunteered to fill in a post-surgery self-report questionnaire on IC. A composite delivered information index and a patient-physician relationship index were constructed for the purposes of the analysis. In total, 77 patients (42 males) volunteered to respond to the questionnaire. The delivered information index scores ranged from 3 to 10, the mean score was 8, and the standard deviation (SD) was 1.9. All patients were aware of their underlyi

SUBMITTER: Falagas ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2777312 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature