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Regarding consent forms
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| Ragnar Suomi 2004-11-05, 4:08 am |
| To be useful, consent forms need to be clear and CONCISE and cover all
relevant issues. If a consent form covered every possible event such
as an earthquake or godzilla stomping on the building then the consent
form would be as thick as a telephone book and useless.
The chronic curmudgeons in here really are misguided in their
thinking.
The number and length of todays posts must be some record for esoteric
babble.
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| Rebecca 2004-11-05, 7:14 pm |
| Ragnar Suomi <ragnarsuomi@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<o2hmo0du2deg76duai7rninbp3ii0ir157@4ax.com>...
> To be useful, consent forms need to be clear and CONCISE and cover all
> relevant issues. If a consent form covered every possible event such
> as an earthquake or godzilla stomping on the building then the consent
> form would be as thick as a telephone book and useless.
I agree with that. Gee, Rags, that's twice now.
Patients need a way to put things in context - a way to figure out
which of all the things listed s/he really ought to CARE about
(relatively speaking). To the extent the patient goes away thinking
that it's all just a list of randomly occurring dreadful things that
could, but won't, happen, that's not an informed patient.
For example - the patient needs to know that AB&C are the most
commonly occurring adverse effects, so they can decide whether or not
they think that kind of tradeoff is acceptable. They need to know that
DE&F complications can happen and are generally very treatable but
will cause short-term problems. And they need to know that GH&I
complications are rare but very serious. And for all of the above, the
most important question is, is there anything about ME which makes ME
more likely to get it? I mean, fine, buttonhole flaps only happen
every so often but the patient with deep set orbits has no idea that
he's higher risk when he reads about it in a consent form.
Rebecca
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| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2004-11-05, 7:14 pm |
| An evaluation by a competent doctor should be able to answer all these
questions, and more.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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| serebel 2004-11-06, 2:08 am |
| Ragnar Suomi <ragnarsuomi@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:
If a consent form covered every possible event such
> as an earthquake or godzilla stomping on the building then the consent
> form would be as thick as a telephone book and useless.
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or the tax code. one would need an army of lawyers and accountants before signing.
SErebel
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