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Informed consent

Meaning in healthcare management, with examples

nounCommon term

In healthcare management, informed consent means: A patient's agreement to a treatment or procedure after being told about its purpose, benefits, risks and alternatives in a way they understand.

In Turkish: aydınlatılmış onam, bilgilendirilmiş onam

How it is used

A legal and ethical requirement. Doctors obtain or take consent; patients give or withdraw it. Managers make sure consent forms are complete and kept in the record, because missing consent is a common finding in audits and legal claims.

Example sentences

  1. The audit found three operations where informed consent had not been properly documented.

  2. Informed consent must be taken by someone who can explain the risks of the procedure.

Common collocations

  • obtain informed consent
  • informed consent form
  • give informed consent
  • withdraw consent
  • confidentialityThe duty to keep patients' personal and medical information private and to share it only with people who need it for their care or have legal permission.
  • medical recordThe official record of a patient's health and care, including their history, diagnoses, test results, treatments and the notes written by staff.
  • patient safetyThe prevention of avoidable harm to patients during care, through safe systems, clear procedures and a culture of learning from mistakes.
  • clinical auditA review that compares the care actually given with agreed standards, so that gaps can be found, practice changed and the results checked again.

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