Informed consent: legal, behavioral, and educational issues.
The doctrine of informed consent is examined from legal, behavioral, and educational perspectives. A brief legal history of the doctrine is presented along with a discussion of contemporary standards of disclosure and the emerging right of the patient to understand informed consent disclosures. Behavioral and educational issues include the relationship between disclosure and patient anxiety, patient recall of disclosures, readability of consent forms, and alternatives to the traditional doctor-patient disclosure model. A role for the patient-health educator in strategies to improve both the consenting and informing processes of the informed consent requirement is suggested.
D003071:Cognition; D032882:Comprehension; D032962:Consent Forms; D030881:Disclosure; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011939:Mental Recall; D009014:Morals; D009729:Nursing; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D028701:Patient Rights; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D014481:United States