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Informed Consent and Health Literacy
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George Isham,2 senior advisor at HealthPartners and roundtable chair, welcomed participants and provided an overview of the workshop topic. Informed consent—the process of communication between a patient or research subject and a physician or researcher that results in the explicit agreement to undergo a specific medical intervention—is an ethical concept based on the principle that all patients and research subjects should understand and agree to the potential consequences of the clinical care they receive. Regulations that govern the attainment of informed consent for treatment and research are crucial to ensuring that medical care and research are conducted in an ethical manner and with the utmost respect for individual preferences and dignity, Isham said. These regulations, however, often require—or are perceived to require—that informed consent documents and related materials contain language that is beyond the comprehension level of most patients and study participants, a fact recognized for decades.
Joe Alper - Personal Name
978-0-309-31727-6
NONE
Healthcare Management
English
2015
1-193
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