Patients and Disclosure of Surgical Risk

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 319-324

  Oakley, Justin ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Bristol; Bundaberg; Informed consent; League tables; Report cards; Risk; Surgeon performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650285253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch42     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Australian Story. ABC television documentary, 26 June 2005; http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1402495.htm
2. Bolsin SN. Professional misconduct: the Bristol case. Med J Aust 1998; 169: 369-372.
3. Clarke S, Oakley J, eds. Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability:The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
4. Clarke S, Oakley J. Informed consent and surgeons' performance. J Med Philos 2004; 29: 11-35.
5. Davies G. Queensland Public Hospitals Commission of Inquiry-Report. Brisbane: Queensland State Government, 2005; also at:www.phci.qld.gov.au
6. Faden RR, Beauchamp TL. A History and Theory of Informed Consent. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
7. Kaiser Family Foundation and Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. National Survey on Consumers' Experiences with Patient Safety and Quality Information. Washington, DC:Kaiser Family Foundation, 2004.
8. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2000.
9. Leape LL, Berwick DM. Five years after. To Err is Human: What have we learned? J Am Med Assoc 2005; 293: 2384-2390.
10. Marshall MN, Shekelle P, Leatherman S, Brook R, Owen JW. Dying to Know: Public Release of Information about Quality of Health Care. Los Angeles: RAND Corporation/Nuffield Trust, 2000.
11. Oakley J. An ethical analysis of the defensive surgery objection to individual surgeon report cards. In: Clarke S, Oakley, eds. Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
12. Robinson S, Brodie M. Understanding the quality challenge for health consumers: the Kaiser/AHCPR survey. J Qual Improv 1997; 23: 239-244.
13. Santen S, Hemphill R, Spanier C, Fletcher N. 'Sorry, it's my first time!' Will patients consent to medical students learning procedures? Med Educ 2005; 39: 365-369.
14. Schneider EC, Epstein AM. Use of public performance reports: A survey of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. J Am Med Assoc 1998; 279: 1638-1642.
15. Spriggs M. The practical limits and value of informed consent. In: Clarke S, Oakley J, eds. Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability: The Ethics of Report Cards on Surgeon Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.