Patient Understanding of Potential Risk and Benefit With Informed Consent in a Left Ventricular Assist Device Population: A Pilot Study.

CONCLUSIONS:: Some of the items had a high level of accuracy, whereas other items suffered from poor performance (including complications from implantation and long-term survival rates). In addition, verbal aptitude was associated with overall scores on the questionnaire, such that patients with a higher verbal aptitude scored better on the questionnaire. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS:: The results of this pilot study suggest that patients would benefit from an improved consent process to increase their knowledge of the device. PMID: 25203240 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - September 8, 2014 Category: Nursing Authors: Edlund JE, Edlund AE, Carey MG Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research