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The influence of process and patient factors on the recall of consent information in mentally competent patients undergoing surgery for neck of femur fractures

INTRODUCTION: Informed consent is an ethical and legal prerequisite for major surgical procedures. Recent literature has identified ‘poor consent’ as a major cause of litigation in trauma cases. We aimed to investigate the patient and process factors that influence consent information recall in ment...

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Autores principales: Khan, SK, Karuppaiah, K, Bajwa, AS
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3954370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22943224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/10.1308/003588412X13171221591970