Patients' perception of quality of pre-operative informed consent in athens, Greece: a pilot study.

BACKGROUND: We sought to perform a study to record and evaluate patients' views of the way surgeons communicate informed consent (IC) in Greece. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A prospective pilot study was carried out in Athens from 9/2007 to 4/2008. The study sample was extracted from patient...

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Main Authors: Matthew E Falagas, Patrick D Akrivos, Vangelis G Alexiou, Vasilios Saridakis, Theofanis Moutos, George Peppas, Barbara K Kondilis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2777312?pdf=render