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Table 10 Final COS to evaluate interventions designed to improve the informed consent process for surgery

From: Development of a core outcome set for informed consent for therapy: An international key stakeholder consensus study

Domain

Outcome

Knowledge

Satisfaction with the quality and amount of information

Decision making

Patient feeling that there was a choice

Patient feeling that the decision to consent was their own

Confidence in the decision made

Communication

Satisfaction with communication

Trust

Trust in the clinician

Process

Patient satisfaction with consent process

Patient rated adequacy of time

Opportunity to ask questions