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Re: Gen: informed consent From: ainsron@msn.com Fri Sep 1 16:25:41 2000 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator" Previous message: Robert J Woolley: "more wisdom from "HOG"" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill, MD: "Gen: informed consent" California has required a detailed informed consent discussion and documentation for hysterectomies, since 1988. I use a form developed by my malpractice carrier and just go down the list with the patients when I'm seeing them preop, they also get a copy to take home with them and put them to sleep at night when they really read it. ACOG district 9 also developed a similar form. Of course I've already discussed the same things informally, given them the ACOG booklet, yada yada yada. I tell them that the process is a lot like buying a car, the paperwork is the longest part of the ordeal. They probably read it about as well as I read the fine print on the car forms, too. >Dear listers- > >Our state regulatory agency appears to want a more detailed >documentation of the informed consent process. For example, for an >abdominal hysterectomy it may not be adequate to document something like >"risks and benefits discussed at length." Instead, something similar to >"risks and benefits discussed, including damage to bladder, ureters, >intestines, peripheral nerves, and blood vessels, etc., etc." might be >necessary. I do the latter, anyway, but many gyns in the area do not. > >How do others document their risk/benefit discussions? Any special >paperwork or videos? Thanks in advance. Also, I found a most >interesting web site that worth a quick perusal: >http://www.informedconsent.org/orders.html > >Ashley > >-- >David Ashley Hill, MD >Associate Director >Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology >Florida Hospital Family Practice Residency >http://home.cfl.rr.com/dahmd > -- Ronald E. Ainsworth, MD Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Rubin's test/uterotubal insufflator" Previous message: Robert J Woolley: "more wisdom from "HOG"" In reply to: D. Ashley Hill, MD: "Gen: informed consent"

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