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Covid 19: consent for elective surgery
Consent for elective surgery: audiovisual devices could be used
BMJ 2020; 370 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3158 (Published 12 August 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;370:m3158
- Federica Foti, forensic pathologist1,
- Giuseppe Vetrugno, risk manager and forensic pathologist, associate professor1 2,
- Fabio De-Giorgio, forensic pathologist and associate professor2 3,
- Michela Cicconi, forensic pathologist1
- 1Risk Management Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, 8 - 00168 Rome, Italy
- 2Department of Health Care Surveillance and Bioethics, Section of Legal Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- 3Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
- fotifederica89{at}gmail.com
Sokol and Dattani ask how to obtain consent now that hospitals are resuming elective surgery.1 The use of paper leaflets is already known to have potential side effects, but there is an additional problem specifically related to covid-19. The subscription and storage of paper consent forms could facilitate the circulation of the virus, as it …
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