Informed consent: Patients listen and read, but what information do they retain?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1164, 2002, Pages

  Turner, Perry ^a,b   Williams, Chris ^a  

^a PALMERSTON NORTH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; RECALL; SURGEON; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING; COMPREHENSION; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 0037175328     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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