Association of Electronic Surgical Consent Forms With Entry Error Rates

JAMA Surg. 2020 Aug 1;155(8):777-778. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2020.1014.

Authors

J Jeffery Reeves¹, Kristin L Mekeel¹, Ruth S Waterman², Lisa R Rhodes³, Brian J Clay⁴, Bryan M Clary¹, Christopher A Longhurst⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
² Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
³ Department of Perioperative Services, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
⁴ Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.

Abstract

This study compares use of electronic surgical consent forms with paper-based forms and their association with decreased error rates.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Consent Forms*
Digital Technology
Feasibility Studies
Humans
Observer Variation