Perceived understanding of informed consent among PG students and patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries in a selected hospital
Journal Title: IP International Journal of Medical Paediatrics and Oncology - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Informed consent was developed as an ethical guideline 150 years ago. The concept began to take shape in 1914, when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo stated, “Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body, and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient’s consent commits an assault for which he is liable.” Whatever we believe informed consent embodies, it has become first and foremost a legal system document designed to protect the patient from the physician. The quality of the administration of informed consent determines whether it is used as a prosecutorial or defense weapon in legal proceedings. Informed consent has evolved over the past 85 years to its current standardized form. Physicians contemplating surgical intervention are required to disclose a description of the problem and its natural history. They must explain the proposed treatment and alternatives to treatment. Risks general to the surgery and specific to the patient are to be delineated. Finally, outcome probabilities and postoperative expectations must be discussed. Purpose: The main aim of the study was to know the perceived understanding of informed consent among PG students as well as among Patients undergoing major abdominal surgeries.
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Syed Imran, Ravi N Vaswani, Vina R Vaswani
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