Improving the Completeness of Surgical Consent Documentation Through a Closed-Loop Quality Improvement Audit at a Secondary Care Teaching Hospital.

Cureus · 2026 · PMC12988691 · PMID 41835634

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did not reach statistical significancep=0.081so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Documentation of the relationship of the representative showed modest improvement but did not reach statistical significance (p=0.081), whereas documentation of reasons for inability to consent improved significantly (5.4% to 50.0%, p<0.001).

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