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Informed consent: what do patients want to know?

P J Dawes1, P Davison

  • 1Sunderland Royal Infirmary, UK.

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
|March 1, 1994
PubMed
Summary

Patients undergoing ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgery want to know about their condition, treatment, and side effects. Despite anxiety, they generally prefer doctors to decide on treatment, with information sheets potentially reducing worry.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Ethics
  • Patient Experience
  • Surgical Consent

Background:

  • Informed consent is crucial in surgery, but patient preferences for pre-operative information are under-researched.
  • Understanding patient desires for information is key to improving the consent process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate what information patients undergoing ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgery wish to receive before their operation.
  • To explore patient perceptions of consent forms and information sheets.

Main Methods:

  • A survey was conducted with 50 patients within three months of undergoing ENT surgery.
  • Patients were questioned about their information needs, views on consent forms, and reactions to information sheets.

Main Results:

Keywords:
Empirical ApproachFreeman Hospital (Newcastle, Eng.)Professional Patient Relationship

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  • Most patients desired information about their condition, treatment, and significant side effects, while trusting doctors' decisions.
  • Fifty percent of patients reported worrying about their surgery; higher anxiety correlated with worry and negative perceptions of information sheets.
  • Over two-thirds viewed consent forms as primarily signifying treatment agreement and a legal document.

Conclusions:

  • Patients want specific information regarding their ENT surgery, even if they trust their doctors' treatment decisions.
  • Anxiety influences how patients perceive pre-operative information, with some fearing it may increase worry or deter them from surgery.
  • Despite anxiety, a higher anxiety score did not correlate with a reduced desire for information about proposed treatments.