Knowledge and practices of obtaining informed consent for medical procedures among specialist physicians: Questionnaire study in 6 croatian hospitals

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 567-574

  Jukić, Marko ^a   Kvolik, Slavica ^b   Kardum, Goran ^c   Kozina, Slavica ^c   Juraga, Ana Tomić ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^d Varazdin General Hospital   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROATIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; INFORMED CONSENT; LAW; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT RIGHT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 75649090088     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2009.50.567     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Beauchamp Tl. Faden RR. Informed consent: II. Meaning and elements of informed consent. In: Reich WT, editor. Encyclopaedia of bioethics. Rev. ed. vol. 3. New York (NY): Simon & Schuster Macmillan; 1995. p. 1240-5.
2. Council of Europe. Convention for the protection of Human Rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. European Treaty Series No. 164. Oviedo, April 4th, 1997.
3. American Society of Anesthesiologists. Committee on Ethics: Syllabus on ethics. Available from: www.asahq.org/publicationsAndServices/EthicsSyllabus. pdf. Accessed: October 22, 2009.
4. Informed consent. In: Manual for anesthesia department organization and management. Park Ridge (IL): American Society of Anesthesiologists; 2005. p. 1-18.
5. Waisel DB, Truog RD. Informed consent. Anesthesiology. 1997;87:968-78. Medline:9357901 doi:10.1097/00000542- 199710000-00033.
6. Nys H, Schotsmans P. Professional autonomy in Belgium. Theor Med Bioeth. 2000;21:425-39. Medline:11142440 doi:10.1023/A:1009921306197.
7. Wheeler R. Consent in surgery. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2006;88:261-4. Medline:16719993 doi:10.1308/003588406X106315.
8. Brezis M, Israel S, Weinstein-Birenshtock A, Pogoda P, Sharon A, Tauber R. Quality of informed consent for invasive procedures. Int J Qual Health Care. 2008;20:352-7. Medline:18625699 doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzn025.
9. Paterick TJ, Carson GV, Allen MC, Paterick TE. Medical informed consent: general considerations for physicians. Mayo Clin Proc. 2008;83:313-9. Medline:18315998 doi:10.4065/83.3.313.
10. Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration. Veterans health administration handbook 1004.1. Washington (DC): DVA; 1996.
11. World Medical Association. Declaration of Helsinki - ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. Seoul: 59th WMA General Assembly; 2008.
12. Health Care Act [in Croatian]. Narodne novine. No. 1/97. Consent for Medical Interventions Article 26, sections 5 and 11.
13. Act on the Patients' Rights Protection. Narodne novine. No. 169/2004.
14. Banic M, Kardum D, Plesko S, Petrovecki M, Urek M, Babic Z, et al. Informed consent for gastrointestinal endoscopy: a view of endoscopists in Croatia. Dig Dis. 2008;26:66-70. Medline:18600019 doi:10.1159/000109390. (Pubitemid 350308353)
15. McKneally MF. Controversies in cardiothoracic surgery: is it ethical to advertise surgical results to increase referrals? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2002;123:839-41. Medline:12019366 doi:10.1067/mtc.2002.121763.
16. Chassin MR, Hannan EL, DeBuono BA. Benefits and hazards of reporting medical outcomes publicly. N Engl J Med. 1996;334:394-8. Medline:8538714 doi:10.1056/NEJM199602083340611. (Pubitemid 26049596)
17. Bencko V. Informed consent in the Czech Republic. Sci Total Environ. 1996;184:77-81. doi:10.1016/0048-9697(95)04991-6. (Pubitemid 26160265)
18. Ordinance on the Consent Form. Narodne novine. No. 10/2008.
19. Larobina ME, Merry CJ, Negri JC, Pick AW. Is informed consent in cardiac surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention achievable? ANZ J Surg. 2007;77:530-4. Medline:17610687 doi:10.1111/j.1445-2197.2007.04143.x. (Pubitemid 47019932)
20. Gammelgaard A, Rossel P, Mortensen OS. DANAMI-2 Investigators. Patients' perceptions of informed consent in acute myocardial infarction research: a Danish study. Soc Sci Med. 2004;58:2313-24. Medline:15047087 doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.08.023. (Pubitemid 38407041)
21. Rothrock JC. Can a nurse witness a surgical consent form before the anesthetist has seen the patient? Available at: http://www.medscape.com/ viewarticle/488418. Accessed: October 22, 2009.
22. Losanoff JE, Litwinczuk KM, Ranella MJ, Basson MD. Elective inguinal hernia repair: a unified informed consent, or who wants to know what? Am Surg. 2009;75:296-300. Medline:19385288.
23. Fernando B, Bhojwani R, Skarmoustas P, Aralikatti D, Mohan M. Standards in consent for cataract surgery. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2007;33:1464-8. Medline:17662443 doi:10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.04.025. (Pubitemid 47088150)
24. Turner P, Williams C. Informed consent: patients listen and read, but what information do they retain? N Z Med J. 2002;115:U218. Medline:12552294.
25. Pesudovs K, Luscombe CK, Coster DJ. Recall from informed consent counselling for cataract surgery. J Law Med. 2006;13:496-504. Medline:16756218.
26. Deyo RA, Cherkin DC, Weinstein J, Howe J, Ciol M, Mulley AG Jr. Involving patients in clinical decisions: impact of an interactive video program on use of back surgery. Med Care. 2000;38:959-69. Medline:10982117 doi:10.1097/ 00005650-200009000-00009.
27. van Kleffens T, van Baarsen B, van Leeuwen E. The medical practice of patient autonomy and cancer treatment refusals: a patients' and physicians' perspective. Soc Sci Med. 2004;58:2325-36. Medline:15047088 doi:10.1016/j. socscimed.2003.08.027. (Pubitemid 38407042)
28. Levinson W, Kao A, Kuby A, Thisted RA. Not all patients want to participate in decision making. A national study of public preferences. J Gen Intern Med. 2005;20:531-5. Medline:15987329 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.04101. x. (Pubitemid 41003809)
29. Levinson W, Chaumeton N. Communication between surgeons and patients in routine office visits. Surgery. 1999;125:127-34. Medline:10026744.
30. Steinemann S, Furoy D, Yost F, Furumoto N, Lam G, Murayama K. Marriage of professional and technical tasks: a strategy to improve obtaining informed consent. Am J Surg. 2006;191:696-700. Medline:16647363 doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg. 2006.02.003. (Pubitemid 44389520)
31. Domino KB. Informed consent for regional anesthesia: what is necessary? Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2007;32:1-2. Medline:17196484.
32. West JM, Palmer SK. Practical ethics for the informed consent process for anaesthetic care. committee of ethics. Available from: http://www.asahq.org/ Newsletters/2007/05-07/west05-07.html. Accessed: October 22, 2009.
33. Division of Advocacy and Health Policy. In compliance with the new hospital informed consent requirements. Bull Am Coll Surg. 2007;92:38-9. Medline:17985837.