'Hobson's choice': a qualitative study of consent in acute surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study aimed to understand through qualitative research what patients considered material in their decision to consent to an acute surgical intervention.

Participants, setting and intervention

The patients selected aged between 18 and 90, having been admitted to a major trauma centre to undergo an acute surgical intervention within 14 days of injury, where English was their first language. Data saturation point was reached after 21 patients had been recruited. Data collection and analysis were conducted simultaneously, through interviews undertaken immediately prior to surgery. The data were coded using NVIVO V.12 software.

Results

The key theme that originated from the data analysis was patients were unable to identify any individual risk that would mod

SUBMITTER: Howard A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature