Improving Informed Consent Process for Trauma Patients in the Emergency Department

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery; Trauma

Treatments: Other: video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01338480

KMUH-IRB-980361

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is planning to develop the audiovisual videos and determine whether educational videos are superior to routine discussion for informing trauma patients in emergency department (ED) about risks, benefits, and alternatives to receiving surgery.

Enrollment: 172 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• scheduled to receive the surgery

Exclusion criteria

• clinically unstable
• refuse to participate
• unable to understand the consent process for this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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172 participants in 2 patient groups

video

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group watched an educational video illustrating informed consent information

Treatment:

Other: video

control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group read an informed consent document.