ReviewQuality in health care : QHC2001
Informed consent: moral necessity or illusion?
Review in Quality in health care : QHC, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic review of genuine versus spurious side-effects of beta-blockers in heart failure using placebo control: recommendations for patient information.International journal of cardiology · 2013Pooled it
- Patient understanding and acceptability of an early lung cancer diagnosis trial: a qualitative study.Trials · 2018Trial
- Improving the patient experience during musculoskeletal interventional procedures.Skeletal radiology · 2023Review
- Audiovisual Modules to Enhance Informed Consent in the ICU: A Pilot Study.Critical care explorations · 2020Article
- Assent and consent in pediatric and adolescent research: school children's perspectives.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2019Article
- The impact of dental phobia on patient consent.British dental journal · 2015Article
- Supporting shared decision making within the MobiGuide project.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2013Article
- The representation of risk in routine medical experience: what actions for contemporary health policy?PloS one · 2012Article
- Adequacy of patient information on adverse effects: an assessment of patient information leaflets in the UK.Drug safety · 2008Article
- A problem for achieving informed choice.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2008Article
- Commentaries on "Informatics and medicine: from molecules to populations".Methods of information in medicine · 2008Article
- Reasons underpinning patients' preferences for various angina treatments.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2004Article
- Patients' understanding of risk associated with medication use: impact of European Commission guidelines and other risk scales.Drug safety · 2003Review
- Good clinical practice and informed consent are inseparable.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2002Article
- Understanding risk and lessons for clinical risk communication about treatment preferences.Quality in health care : QHC · 2001Review
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Abstract
There is a professional and legal consensus about the clinical duty to obtain informed consent from patients before treating them. This duty is a reflection of wider cultural values about the moral importance of respect for individual autonomy. Recent research has raised practical problems about obtaining informed consent. Some patients have cognitive and emotional problems with understanding clinical information and do not apparently wish to participate in making decisions about their treatment. This paper argues that such research does not undermine their potential to provide informed consent. Rather, sufficient resources are required to create better communication skills among clinicians and more effective educational materials for patients. Finally, cognitive and emotional inequality among patients is maintained to be a reflection of wider social and economic inequalities. Researchers who take the right to informed consent seriously should also address these.
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