Achieving Equity in Informed Consent: A Culturally-Informed Perspective for the Consideration and Consent of Minority Patients for Electroconvulsive Therapy.

This article provides a perspective based in cultural translational science to conversations of informed consent for ECT that removes our self-imposed stigma against discussing past and ongoing injustices with minority patients. Reducing disparities to geriatric minorities through equity of informed consent means that clinicians must validate the unique minority experience in medicine as it pertains to agreeing to a treatment modality as emotionally, socially, and historically laden as ECT.
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Source: Am J Geriatr Psychia... - April 1, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Parker CB, McCall WV, Rosenquist P, Cortese N, Spearman-McCarthy EV Tags: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry Source Type: research