Evaluating interventions for informed consent for surgery (ICONS): Protocol for the development of a core outcome set.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The concept of informed consent is fundamental to medical practice. Shortcomings in the process can lead to patient complaints, litigation, unmet expectations and poor outcomes. Consent research has focused on developing tools to improve patient recall and understanding. However, the definitions, methods of measurement and timing of measurement vary widely across the studies that have been done. Although a Cochrane review has reported that many of these interventions appear to work, the high level of heterogeneity in outcome reporting prevents the identification of those interventions that work best and why they do so. It is also not clear which outcomes are most important to each party involved in the consent process and why.

Methods/design

This project will deve

SUBMITTER: Convie LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6220506 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature