The way current patient consent forms are written -- as formal, legal documents -- plants a litigious relationship in both the patient's and the surgeon's mind even before treatment has begun.

ORLANDO — Patients who received personalized consent forms before angioplasty or stent implantation better understood the procedure, potential risks of treatment and were more engaged in the ...

When patients participate in a clinical trial, they are required -- for legal and ethical reasons -- to complete consent forms that are typically long, complicated and filled with technical language.

New patient consent forms in Germany cover the use of patient care data and clinical and biomedical research. German Data Protection Commission DSK has approved a revised version of forms that the ...

An emerging artificial intelligence-powered system developed at Penn Medicine has tripled the speed of fax processing and cut ...

TRICHY: For long, the absence of a uniform template for getting patient consent for medical treatment has been causing confusion among doctors. Addressing the issue, Indian Medical Association (IMA), ...

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 ...

One patient who had to sign a paper copy of a genetic testing consent form. Several patients who had to sign a printed ...

To improve patient consent form comprehension, researchers have developed approaches to simplify the process by focusing on the information that patients need most when deciding whether to enroll in a ...

It's time patient consent forms came back full circle to a tool for patient education, rather than the waiver of liability they have become. The original purpose of the consent forms was for a surgeon ...