Patients' perception of quality of pre-operative informed consent in athens, Greece: a pilot study
| Autor: | Vangelis G. Alexiou, George Peppas, Matthew E. Falagas, Patrick D. Akrivos, Barbara Kondilis, Vasilios Saridakis, Theofanis Moutos |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Pilot Projects Evidence-Based Healthcare/Health Services Research and Economics Patient Education as Topic Informed consent Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Quality (business) Prospective Studies Patient participation Prospective cohort study lcsh:Science media_common Physician-Patient Relations Multidisciplinary Informed Consent Greece Non-Clinical Medicine/Bioethics business.industry lcsh:R Middle Aged Educational attainment Pre operative Comprehension Patient perceptions Physical therapy Female Perception Surgery lcsh:Q Patient Participation business Public Health and Epidemiology/Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Research Article |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 4, Iss 11, p e8073 (2009) PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Popis: | Background We sought to perform a study to record and evaluate patients' views of the way surgeons communicate informed consent (IC) in Greece. Methodology/Principal Findings A prospective pilot study was carried out in Athens from 9/2007 to 4/2008. The study sample was extracted from patients, operated by eight different surgeons, who volunteered to fill in a post-surgery self-report questionnaire on IC. A composite delivered information index and a patient-physician relationship index were constructed for the purposes of the analysis. In total, 77 patients (42 males) volunteered to respond to the questionnaire. The delivered information index scores ranged from 3 to 10, the mean score was 8, and the standard deviation (SD) was 1.9. All patients were aware of their underlying diagnosis and reason for surgery. However, a considerable proportion of the respondents (14.3%) achieved a score below or equal to 5. The patient-physician relationship scores ranged from 0 to 20, the mean score was 16 and the standard deviation (SD) was 4.3. The better the patient-physician relationship, the more information was finally delivered to the patient from the physician (Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient was 0.4 and p |
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