The way current patient consent forms are written -- as formal, legal documents -- plants a litigious relationship in both the patient's and the surgeon's mind even before treatment has begun.

New guidelines emphasize the need for clarity in consent agreements for clinical trials and aim to broaden participation in ...

ORLANDO — Patients who received personalized consent forms before angioplasty or stent implantation better understood the procedure, potential risks of treatment and were more engaged in the ...

When patients participate in a clinical trial, they are required -- for legal and ethical reasons -- to complete consent forms that are typically long, complicated and filled with technical language.

Patients will now need to sign consent forms at hospitals before sensitive procedures such as pelvic, prostate and rectal exams Q: I saw the news about patient consent forms now being required for ...

Savanah Harshbarger estimates she performed as many as 10 pelvic exams last year on patients before gynecologic surgeries, feeling for fibroid tumors or other abnormalities. The Duke University ...

An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when ...

It's time patient consent forms came back full circle to a tool for patient education, rather than the waiver of liability they have become. The original purpose of the consent forms was for a surgeon ...

To improve patient consent form comprehension, researchers have developed approaches to simplify the process by focusing on the information that patients need most when deciding whether to enroll in a ...

It's time patient consent forms came back full circle to a tool for patient education, rather than the waiver of liability they have become. The original purpose of the consent forms was for a surgeon ...