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Informed consent is a concept that tends to be overlooked by many healthcare practitioners. It often is treated as but a step when it should be viewed as an important preface to the procedure and subsequent relationship with the surgical patient. Currently, patients have “the right to consent to or refuse healthcare and that they (must) be provided with all information material to a decision to consent to or to refuse healthcare.”

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    CFR 482.13(b)(2): “Standard: Exercise of rights. (1) The patient has the right to participate in the development and implementation of his or her plan of care. (2) The patient or his or her representative (as allowed under State law) has the right to make informed decisions regarding his or her care. The patient’s rights include being informed of his or her health status, being involved in care planning and treatment, and being able to request or refuse treatment. This right must not be construed as a mechanism to demand the provision of treatment or services deemed medically unnecessary or inappropriate” [7].

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    CFR 482.24(c)(2)(v): “All records must document the following, as appropriate: (v) Properly executed informed consent forms for procedures and treatments specified by the medical staff, or by Federal or State law if applicable, to require written patient consent” [7].

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    CFR 482.51(b)(2): “A properly executed informed consent form for the operation must be in the patient’s chart before surgery, except in emergencies” [7].

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Timothy A. Plerhoples MD, MPH (Resident)

  2. Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    James N. Lau MD, FACS (Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery)

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  1. , Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, 1100 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    David S. Tichansky, MD, FACS

  2. Minimally Invasive Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Pasteur Drive 300, Stanford, 94305, USA

    John Morton, MD, MPH

  3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical, Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School, Brookline Ave. 330, Boston, 02215-5400, Massachusetts, USA

    Daniel B. Jones

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Plerhoples, T.A., Lau, J.N. (2012). Informed Consent. In: Tichansky, MD, FACS, D., Morton, MD, MPH, J., Jones, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Quality, Outcomes and Patient Safety. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7901-8_53

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