Insight in Information Provision Prior to Obtaining Surgical Informed Consent-by Audiotaping Outpatient Consultations.

Autor: Burger BB; Department of Plastic Surgery, Isala Hospital Zwolle, Dokter van Heesweg 2, 8025 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands. berendbburger@gmail.com., Veerman MM; Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital Rivierenland Tiel, President Kennedylaan 1, 4002 WP, Tiel, The Netherlands., Tellier MA; Department of Plastic Surgery, Isala Hospital Zwolle, Dokter van Heesweg 2, 8025 AB, Zwolle, The Netherlands., Leclercq WKG; Department of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery, Maxima Medical Center Veldhoven, De Run 4600, 5504 DB, Veldhoven, The Netherlands., Mouës-Vink CM; Department of Plastic Surgery, Medical Centre Leeuwarden, Henri Dunantweg 2, 8934 AD, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands., Werker PMN; Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Groningen & University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, 9713 GZ, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: World journal of surgery [World J Surg] 2019 Feb; Vol. 43 (2), pp. 425-430.
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-018-4804-6
Abstrakt: Background: Literature suggests that patient-informing process prior to obtaining surgical informed consent (SIC) does not function well. This study aimed to provide insight into the current practice of SIC in the Netherlands.
Methods: This is a prospective, observational, and multicenter study, conducted in one academic and two non-academic teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. Audio recordings were made during outpatient consultations with patients presenting with Dupuytren Disease. The recorded informing process was scored according to a checklist. Written documentation of the SIC process in the patient's chart was compared to these scored checklists. Time spent on SIC during the consultations was also recorded.
Results: A total of 41 outpatient consultations were included in the study. Consultations were conducted by 25 plastic surgeons and their residents. Average time spent on SIC was 55.6% of the total consultation time. Considerable variation was observed concerning the amount and type of information given and discussed. In 59% of the consultations, discrepancies were observed between written documentation of consultations and audio recordings. Information on treatment risks, the postoperative period, and the operating surgeon was addressed the least.
Conclusion: Despite a relatively large part of the consultation time being spent on SIC, patients received scarce information concerning treatment risks, postoperative period, and who their operating surgeon would be. Discrepancies were observed between the written documentation of SIC and information recorded on the audio recordings. This occurred predominantly in one hospital that used a pre-made list of 'discussed information' in its digital patient chart.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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