A Practical Guide to Informed Consent

	Toolkit Contents

	Introduction What is Informed Consent? Why Do We Need to Improve It? How Can This Guide Help You? Background Requirements for Informed Consent Understanding the Barriers to Informed Consent Understanding the Impact of Health Literacy on Informed Consent Evolving Best Practices in Informed Consent How to Improve Your Informed Consent [1] Gain Organizational Consensus [TOOL 1A] Staff Training Slides [2] Assess Status & Prioritize Needs Survey and Questionnaire Mini-Study, Audit, or Inventory [TOOL 2A] Survey to Assess the Status [TOOL 2B] Audit for Measuring Compliance [3] Improve Your Written Consent Forms and Other Educational Materials [TOOL 3A] Style Guide [TOOL 3B] Checklist For Assessing the Informed Consent Form [TOOL 3C] Patient Pretest [4] Improve Your Consent Process [TOOL 4A] Checklist for Patients Appendicies [A] Evidence Review: Informed Consent in Practice [B] Barriers to Effective Informed Consent [C] Sample Consent Forms References Resources Authors/Reviewers

How To Improve Your Informed Consent:

[Tool 2B]
Audit for Measuring Compliance with

Your Organization’s Informed Consent Procedures

Use the following example (from the Australian state of Queensland) as a model to create your own audit tool to measure compliance with the informed consent process. Consider customizing with some of the questions suggested on the previous page.


	Download [Tool 2B] Audit for Measuring Compliance