NCT04024189

Patient Experience of Consent for Cancer Surgery in Light of Recent Changes to UK Law- a Questionnaire Study

Audit of Informed Consent of Patients Undergoing Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Since the 2015 Montgomery vs Lanarkshire Health Board ruling, the consent process in the UK has had to change. In practice, this means that doctors must ask themselves whether the patient knows about the material risks of the treatment being proposed, alternatives to the treatment, and whether reasonable care has been taken to ensure the patient actually knows this. This study aims to determine patients' perspectives of consent for major cancer surgery in light of the Lanarkshire ruling.

Detailed description

A patient satisfaction survey was administered to patients who had undergone urological, gynaecological, colorectal, and plastic surgical procedures at a specialised cancer centre where changes to consent processes in light of the Lanarkshire ruling had been implemented.

Conditions

• Patient Satisfaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Survey	Patients were given a questionnaire/survey to complete in respect of their satisfaction of the consent process for their surgical procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2018-06-30
• Completion: 2018-08-10
• First posted: 2019-07-18
• Last updated: 2019-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom