The Informed Consent policy and forms have been reviewed, and minor revisions are pending.
Here are highlights of the policy changes:
- Added therapeutic treatment to the list of procedures and treatments that require informed consent, particularly those that:
- Are invasive
- Carry an anesthetic risk
- Carry a significant procedural or therapeutic risk
- Involve receipt of blood or blood products outside the perioperative period
- Added content and direction for procedures that result in sterilization:
- A patient who doesn’t have the ability to consent or who is a minor may not have a procedure or treatment that results in sterilization without a court order. Exception: emergency situations in which a delay would result in serious patient injury or death.
- Medicaid-covered patients must sign the Medicaid Consent for Sterilization form.
Here are highlights of changes to Informed Consent forms:
- Added space for date of birth. This provides a second patient identifier (as required by the Patient Identification Policy) when the consent is obtained in the office or a clinic setting prior to admission and when the patient identification chart label isn’t available.
- Added devices to items that may be removed.
- Tissue and devices that are removed from my body may be examined, stored and/or disposed of.
- Added box and wording to bottom-right corner of the form to indicate the location where patient-identification label should be placed. Added wording that directs the provider to fill in the DOB, at the top of the form, when the patient ID label is not attached.
Learn more on the Informed Consent website, which can be found in the Intermountain.net A-to-Z Index under “informed consent.” The webpage includes key information, FAQs, links to the Informed Consent Policy/forms, and contact information.