SynthesisBMC medical ethics2020
The patient and clinician experience of informed consent for surgery: a systematic review of the qualitative evidence.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Decision-Making and Decision Satisfaction Following Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC for GI Malignancies: A Qualitative Study.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- RESPECT: a conversational AI system for informed consent with accuracy, safety, and stakeholder-centered evaluation.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Shared decision making using augmented reality a multicentre pilot randomised controlled trial in orthognathic surgery.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- IsAI & society · 2026Article
- The informed consent process for surgical procedures: perspectives of patients and next-of-kins in a lower middle-income country.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Empowering Patient Autonomy: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Scaffolding Informed Consent in Medical Practice.Bioethics · 2026Article
- Patient-Reported Perceptions of Surgical Informed Consent Communication in Elective General Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Chinese Tertiary Hospital.Patient preference and adherence · 2026Article
- Informed consent practices among emergency staff for patients undergoing emergency surgery in the emergency surgical units of two tertiary teaching hospitals in Uganda: a qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2025Article
- Perceptions, practices, and barriers in surgical informed consent: A cross-sectional study from Sudan: Surgical Informed Consent in Sudan.Surgery in practice and science · 2025Article
- Measuring patient satisfaction with education using extended reality in orthognathic surgery: Development, validation, and reliability of the 3D orthognathic surgery questionnaire (3DOS-Q).PEC innovation · 2025Article
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- Emergency Verbal Consent for Intrapartum Research: A Grounded Theory Study.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025Article
- Knowledge and associated factors of patients toward informed consent in obstetric and gynecologic surgical procedures at Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
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- Surgical informed consent practices and influencing factors in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of the literature.BMJ quality & safety · 2024Article
- Self-Rated Competence of Ugandan Healthcare Workers to Obtain Informed Consent for Autopsy.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundInformed consent is an integral component of good medical practice. Many researchers have investigated measures to improve the quality of informed consent, but it is not clear which techniques work best and why. To address this problem, we propose developing a core outcome set (COS) to evaluate interventions designed to improve the consent process for surgery in adult patients with capacity. Part of this process involves reviewing existing research that has reported what is important to patients and doctors in the informed consent process.
methodsThis qualitative synthesis comprises four phases: identification of published papers and determining their relevance; appraisal of the quality of the papers; identification and summary of the key findings from each paper while determining the definitiveness of each finding against the primary data; comparison of key themes between papers such that findings are linked across studies.
resultsSearches of bibliographic databases returned 11,073 titles. Of these, 16 studies met the inclusion criteria. Studies were published between 1996 and 2016 and included a total of 367 patients and 74 health care providers. Thirteen studies collected data using in-depth interviews and constant comparison was the most common means of qualitative analysis. A total of 94 findings were extracted from the primary papers and divided into 17 categories and ultimately 6 synthesised findings related to: patient characteristics, knowledge, communication, the model patient, trust and decision making.
conclusionsThis qualitative meta-aggregation is the first to examine the issue of informed consent for surgery. It has revealed several outcomes deemed important to capture by patients and clinicians when evaluating the quality of a consent process. Some of these outcomes have not been examined previously in research comparing methods for informed consent. This review is an important step in the development of a COS to evaluate interventions designed to improve the consent process for surgery. REGISTRATION: The study protocol was registered on the international prospective register for systematic reviews (PROSPERO ID: CRD42017077101).
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