Patients' Perception of Quality of Pre-Operative Informed Consent in Athens, Greece: A Pilot Study

Matthew E Falagas, Patrick D Akrivos, Vangelis G Alexiou, Vasilios Saridakis, Theofanis Moutos, George Peppas and Barbara K Kondilis

PLOS ONE, 2009, vol. 4, issue 11, 1-6

Abstract: Background: We sought to perform a study to record and evaluate patients' views of the way surgeons communicate informed consent (IC) in Greece. Methodology/Principal Findings: A prospective pilot study was carried out in Athens from 9/2007 to 4/2008. The study sample was extracted from patients, operated by eight different surgeons, who volunteered to fill in a post-surgery self-report questionnaire on IC. A composite delivered information index and a patient-physician relationship index were constructed for the purposes of the analysis. In total, 77 patients (42 males) volunteered to respond to the questionnaire. The delivered information index scores ranged from 3 to 10, the mean score was 8, and the standard deviation (SD) was 1.9. All patients were aware of their underlying diagnosis and reason for surgery. However, a considerable proportion of the respondents (14.3%) achieved a score below or equal to 5. The patient-physician relationship scores ranged from 0 to 20, the mean score was 16 and the standard deviation (SD) was 4.3. The better the patient-physician relationship, the more information was finally delivered to the patient from the physician (Spearman's rank-order correlation coefficient was 0.4 and p

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