Incidental findings during a surgical procedure-patient and public perspectives.

CONCLUSION: Patient and public preferences to proceed with treatment in hypothetical scenarios were generally consistent with surgeons' reported practice when faced with IFs. The data suggest that an IF clause in the consenting process could help surgeons make clinical decisions best aligned with individual patients' preferences. PMID: 29389925 [PubMed - in process]
Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research