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Answering Your Questions About Informed Consent in Healthcare
Here’s LHA Trust Funds’ take on informed consent and answers to frequently asked questions from our members.
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By Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D.
October 19, 2020
Informed consent is required by both state mandate and professional association ethical codes to assure the care and research, and protection of patient rights. Often lengthy and somewhat confusing, consent forms vary substantially across settings. Traditionally paper and now electronic medium are used to provide protection for clients and patients. The problem is that many research studies show that patient and research subjects have difficulty understanding consent forms when obtained in-person. Offering a digitized version of such forms can only lead to yet more complications. This article then offers a few of the most relevant studies to help the reader.
The study Developing a Transparent, Participant Navigated Electronic Informed Consent for Mobile Mediated Research by Megan Doerr, Christine Suver, and John Wilbanks points out that electronic informed consent provides increased flexibility, greater comprehension, and patient engagement, reduced provider workload, and higher satisfaction among patients and providers.
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