A Comparison of the Views of Patients and Medical Staff in Relation to the Process of Informed Consent

The quality and quantity of information required in the consent process is well documented, but there is little extant literature regarding timing of either information about the proposed procedure or the act of consent itself. With the recent introduction of a new NHS-wide consent form, we wished to determine the preferences of both patients and staff to ascertain whether any concordance of views existed.A 10-point questionnaire, developed in...