/ en Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:35:56 -0500 Mon, 01 Apr 24 15:03:00 -0500 /news/headline/2024-04-01-cms-updates-informed-consent-guidance-hospitals <p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 1 revised its <a href="https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-24-10-hospitals.pdf">Hospital Interpretative Guidelines for Informed Consent</a> to clarify the need to obtain informed consent from patients before medical students or other students perform important surgical tasks or sensitive or invasive procedures or examinations.</p><p>“Based on increasing concerns about the absence of informed patient consent prior to allowing practitioners or supervised medical, advanced practice provider, or other applicable students to perform training- and education-related examinations outside the medically necessary procedure (such as breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal examinations), particularly on anesthetized patients, we are reinforcing hospitals’ informed consent obligations,” the guidance states.</p><p>In an <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/04/01/letter-to-the-nations-teaching-hospitals-and-medical-schools.html">associated letter</a> to teaching hospitals and medical schools, HHS officials said, “It is critically important that hospitals set clear guidelines to ensure providers and trainees performing these examinations first obtain and document informed consent from patients before performing sensitive examinations in all circumstances. Informed consent includes the right to refuse consent for sensitive examinations conducted for teaching purposes and the right to refuse to consent to any previously unagreed examinations to treatment while under anesthesia.”</p><p>HHS’ Office for Civil Rights also will continue to work with HIPAA-covered entities to ensure that their policies and practices related to sensitive examinations do not discriminate against patients on the basis of sex, race, national original, age and disability, the letter notes.</p> Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:03:00 -0500 Informed Consent /aha-center-health-innovation-market-scan/2023-12-05-how-improve-shared-decision-making-and-informed-consent <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-8"> <p><img alt="How to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent. 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In addition, where preference-sensitive conditions exist, the use of validated decision aids should be part of the shared decision-making.</p> <p>These issues will be explored in detail in an AHA Leadership Scan episode, <a href="https://events-na12.adobeconnect.com/content/connect/c1/1295154209/en/events/event/shared/5981181358/event_registration.html?sco-id=5983340534" target="_blank" title="AHA Leadership Scan: A Series of Virtual Panel Discussions. Solutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent: How to engage patients with evidence-based information and insights registration.">“Solutions to Improve Shared Decision-Making and Informed Consent,” </a>at 1 p.m. ET/noon CT on Tuesday, Dec. 12.</p> <p><strong>Attendees will learn how to:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Share best practices on shared decision-making’s essential role in informed consent and pragmatic care.</li> <li>Assess the impact of shared decision-making on the patient experience, clinical outcomes and cost of care.</li> <li>Examine how social determinants of health impact informed consent and shared decision-making.</li> <li>Understand considerations when implementing shared decision-making processes and tools, including the use of decision aids where preference-sensitive conditions exist.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <p><a href="/center" title="Visit the AHA Center for Health Innovation landing page."><img alt="AHA Center for Health Innovation logo" data-entity- data-entity-uuid="7ade6b12-de98-4d0b-965f-a7c99d9463c5" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/logo-aha-innovation-center-color-sm.jpg" type="file" class="align-center"></a></p> <p><a href="/center/form/innovation-subscription"><img alt data-entity-type data-entity-uuid src="/sites/default/files/2019-04/Market_Scan_Call_Out_360x300.png"></a></p> </div> </div> </div> .field_featured_image { position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } .featured-image{ position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0 0 0 0); height: 1px; width: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0; border: 0; } Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:13:28 -0600 Informed Consent