Calderwood Catherine Jane, Braut Geir Sverre, Wiig Siri
Faculty of Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK.
Stavanger University Hospital, N-4068 Stavanger, Norway.
Healthcare (Basel). 2024 Dec 24;13(1):8. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13010008.
Making decisions about risk, describing and appropriately explaining risk in medical practice is complex for patients and professionals. In this paper, we investigate how the concept of consent is practiced differently in the UK and Norway and discuss pros and cons of the chosen approaches from a patient safety culture perspective. We argue that consent is a fundamental part of the safety culture and influence on health system functioning and patient and staff safety. Examples from the UK and Norway are used and discussed in terms of how risk perception influences consent processes and practices.
在医疗实践中，患者和专业人员在做出风险决策、描述并适当地解释风险方面都面临着复杂的情况。在本文中，我们研究了英国和挪威在实践同意概念时的差异，并从患者安全文化的角度讨论了所选方法的优缺点。我们认为，同意是安全文化的基本组成部分，会影响卫生系统的运作以及患者和工作人员的安全。本文运用了英国和挪威的实例，并就风险认知如何影响同意过程和实践进行了讨论。
