Open AccessEfficacy of a separate informed consent for anesthesia services: A prospective study from the Caribbean
Author(s) -
K. Rampersad,
Deryk Chen,
Hariharan Subramanian
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.173364
Subject(s) - informed consent , medicine , likert scale , anesthesia , patient satisfaction , prospective cohort study , surgery , alternative medicine , psychology , developmental psychology , pathology
This study aimed to determine whether a separate written consent form improved the efficacy of the informed consent process for anesthesia in adult patients undergoing elective surgery at a tertiary care teaching hospital.