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Assessing the benefit of a personalized EHR-generated informed consent in a dental school setting . Informed consents are routinely used as an important source of information to help patients make appropriate clinical decisions . However , current standard consent forms may not accomplish their intended purpose due to the variety of patient literacy and experiences and , in the dental school setting , the developing competence of students . The purpose of this pilot study was to test the efficacy of a personalized informed consent generated through an electronic health record ( EHR ) at one dental school and its role in patient decision making . In the study , a set of informed consents , or SmartConsents , were developed for specific diagnoses and procedures , enhanced with graphics , and delivered through the school 's EHR . Fifty patients were recruited in the school 's Urgent Care Clinic and divided evenly into two groups : one ( control ) receiving the standard consent , with the second receiving a SmartConsent . Following treatment , patients were assessed based on demographics , decisional conflict , satisfaction , health literacy , and knowledge . Overall , there were no significant differences in main effects between SmartConsent and standard informed consents for decisional conflict and satisfaction , although significant differences were identified during secondary analysis of satisfaction , gender , and ethnicity . The study also demonstrated the potential for consents to aid the student provider in better communicating with patients .
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Intervention_Educational
personalized EHR-generated informed consent
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Intervention_Educational
SmartConsents
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Intervention_Educational
standard consent
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Intervention_Educational
SmartConsent
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Outcome_Other
benefit
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efficacy
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demographics
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decisional conflict
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satisfaction
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health literacy
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Outcome_Other
knowledge
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Outcome_Other
main effects
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Outcome_Mental
decisional conflict and satisfaction
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Outcome_Other
satisfaction
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gender
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ethnicity
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Outcome_Mental
better communicating with patients
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Participant_Sample-size
Fifty