Informed consent for percutaneous lung biopsy: comparison of two consent protocols based on patient recall after the procedure.
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 165 (5) , 1139-1142
- https://doi.org/10.2214/ajr.165.5.7572491
Abstract
Informed consent is now required for the majority of radiologic procedures, but few studies have evaluated the efficacy of informed consent protocols. We compared our standard consent protocol of obtaining consent prior to percutaneous lung biopsy with a modified protocol by using patients' recall of procedure risks after the biopsy as an indicator of patients' comprehension.The study sample consisted of 50 patients who underwent percutaneous lung biopsy between December 1992 and June 1994. Twenty-seven patients received our standard informed consent procedure in which four important procedure risks were described briefly using our standard method. Twenty-three patients underwent a consent procedure that had the following modification. After the four procedure risks were described, the patient was tested verbally until all risks could be recited to the physician. This change required 5 additional min at most. In both protocols, efficacy of the procedure was evaluated by testing patient recall 4 hr after c...Keywords
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