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Informed Consent Overview and Survey A number of powerful national trends and imperatives have affected surgical care and have brought into sharp focus the need for major reform of patient education in surgery, including the area of informed consent (IC). The American College of Surgeons (ACS) guidelines recommend a discussion of the: nature of illness and course of no treatment, operation description, estimated risks or mortality and morbidity, complications, benefits, expectation during and after hospitalization, and alternative treatments, including nonoperative treatments. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Joint Commission also require detailed documentation of these guidelines. More than 97 percent of ACS members surveyed are requesting assistance with the development of IC templates. The ACS will now offer ACS-reviewed IC templates. The ACS templates will be available in print and electronic formats, can be saved as a progress note, and can be individualized by each surgeon/practice. The Patient Education Committee, in an agreement with Dialog Medical, will offer more than 1,500 procedure-specific templates for use by ACS members. The templates will be ready for order and distribution in February 2010. The purpose of this survey is to:
By completing this survey, you agree to allow the American College of Surgeons to use the compiled data as part of its needs assessment process, with possible publication as a report. The identity of all individuals will be protected, and only aggregate data will be reported.
All surgeons willing to review five informed consent templates will receive six months of free access to all consent templates in their specialty area. Please download the survey, complete the questions, and email it to twoodson-shelby@facs.org.
Online October 7, 2009 This page and all contents are Copyright © 2009 by the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL 60611-3211
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