Informed Consent and Risk Management

Abstract

In every relief run, both to the goals of medical performance quality and in the optics of a therapeutic alliance, it is fundamental to create a relationship of trust among the physician and the patient, in which communication assumes a fundamental role.

The informed consent is set as an integral part of the sanitary action as conclusive moment of that “therapeutic alliance” fundamental to face in a correct way every illness, and it legitimates the same sanitary action, as it is the demonstration of the constitutionally guaranteed right of patient's autodetermination.

The A.O.U.D. of Udine has undertaken a run of accreditation to the Joint Commission International that it foresees a revision of the informative runs and an updating of the forms of informed consent, with the purpose to overcome the traditional physician-patient relationship, recognizing to all the patients an active role in the exercise of the medical action and in the care process.

In fact the information must be lived as integral part of the sanitary action, with the awareness that this, private of such a part, would result incomplete and inaccurate, independently from the result. In such optics, the consent form, created absorbing legislative, ethical and deontological principles and jurisprudential orientations, will be illustrated and particular considerations about the type of information that must be given to the patient for treatments effected in day-surgery will be formulated.