INFORMED CONSENT IN ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY - A STUDY OF THE VALUE OF WRITTEN WARNINGS

Authors
Citation
S. Layton et J. Korsen, INFORMED CONSENT IN ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY - A STUDY OF THE VALUE OF WRITTEN WARNINGS, British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery, 32(1), 1994, pp. 34-36
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
ISSN journal
02664356
Volume
32
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
34 - 36
Database
ISI
SICI code
0266-4356(1994)32:1<34:ICIOAM>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Objective-To determine if written preoperative warnings about risks an d outcomes of surgery improves patients' recall and recognition of the se warnings postoperatively compared to traditional verbal warnings an d to determine if the timing of these warnings is significant. Design- Prospective study of patients given written warnings compared to a con trol group of patients warned in the traditional verbal way. Setting-O ral and Maxillofacial unit of a District General Hospital.