News & Research
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Is AI the future for informed consent?
10 Apr 2025Published review exploring the current and future role for both digital and AI technologies in enhancing the informed consent process.
What is the global landscape of consent?
3 Mar 2025A new BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine review explores how informed consent practices vary worldwide and examines solutions for bridging these differences.
Digital consent could save the NHS money
10 Jan 2025New research published in PharmacoEconomics reveals how digital consent could deliver significant cost savings for NHS hospitals.
Digital consent leads to high patient satisfaction in gynaecology
8 Dec 2023New research in the Archives of Gynaecology and Obstetrics demonstrates higher patient satisfaction with digital consent compared to paper in gynaecological surgery.
NHS litigation costs for consent failures nearly double in 10 Years
12 May 2023New research in the British Journal of Surgery reveals concerning trends in NHS litigation costs related to informed consent failures.
Can digital consent move the needle when it comes to SDM?
19 Aug 2022Read about the two new studies that have shown that patient perceptions of Shared Decision Making improve with the use of digital consent.
Errors seen in half of paper consent forms. It's time for digital consent.
20 May 2021Read a summary of the findings from a recent paper looking at digital consent in the British Journal of Surgery.
Divided perspectives on shared decisions
5 May 2020What's getting in the way of great consultations?
Paper: Improving surgical consent by using electronic procedure-specific forms (econsent)
1 Aug 2017Can using electronic, procedure-specific consent forms reduce errors?
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