We’ll explain informed consent, what a medical consent form should include, how to properly document patient consent, and more. ...

Contributor Jeffrey Driver describes how Stanford University Medical Center automated its consent process and ... 44% of patients who signed an informed consent form did not know the exact ...

Informed consent is a vital part of healthcare, ensuring that patients understand their treatment options and can make choices about their care. This process builds trust between patients and ...

Informed consent remains critical in healthcare, and over the last several years, there have been multiple updates from agencies and commissions providing clarifications. Most recently in April ...

Advanced medical tests such as biopsy; Informed Consent Vs. Implied Consent. Implied consent can be considered as a form of informed consent. Such consent is implied or suggested, ...

Informed consent is important to consumers' health for many reasons. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most abused and misunderstood concepts in medical care today. That's why it's important to ...

The admissibility of informed consent discussions and forms are a frequent issue in the trial of medical malpractice cases. While this evidence is obviously admissible in cases where the Plaintiff ...

I attended a Medical Ethics presentation recently, which brought to the fore issues about informed consent that have long been contested. The reality is that it is sometimes difficult to ascertain ...

A total of 123 U.S. medical-school Web sites were surveyed for specified readability standards and suggested text for informed-consent documents. Data were obtained from 114 of the Web sites (93 ...

Dr. Robert Karas speaks about informed consent to Arkansas State Medical Board Karas is currently being sued on behalf of four inmates who said they were prescribed ivermectin without their knowledge.

In a previous article titled “Oklahoma Supreme Court broadens scope of state’s informed consent law,” we reported on the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s ...