A Practical Guide to Informed Consent

Temple Health (with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) developed this free guide. The guide tells why and how to improve the consent process in patient care. It includes the following topics:

  • The purpose and definition of informed consent
  • How to gain organizational consensus
  • How to assess status and prioritize needs
  • Barriers to effective informed consent
  • How to improve consent forms
  • Sample consent forms


#InformedConsent

Ethics
Topic
Informed Consent
Audience
Health Care Professionals, Organizational Leaders and Administrators
Setting
Hospitals and Health Systems, Primary Care and Outpatient Practices
Level
Applied