Improving the Effectiveness of the Informed Consent Process in Elective Aesthetic Procedures [POSTER]

Improving the Effectiveness of the Informed Consent Process in Elective Aesthetic Procedures [POSTER]
Hagopian, Chelsea Olivia; Ades, Teresa B.; Hagopian, Thomas Martin; Wolfswinkel, Erik; Stevens, Grant
Virginia Henderson Global Nursing e-Repository, 14 February 2019
Abstract
Informed consent is commonly reduced to a legal formality rather than upholding its ethical ideal of being a process of shared decision-making. We present a multiphase development process model for creating a patient decision aid prototype to replace the traditional informed consent documents for primary breast augmentation surgery.