Informed consent and communication of risk from radiological and nuclear medicine examinations: how to escape from a communication inferno

AUTOR(ES)

Picano, Eugenio

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

Radiological and nuclear medicine examinations confer a definite (albeit low) long term risk of cancer, but patients undergoing such examinations often receive no or inaccurate information about these risks. Picano argues that this disregard of patient autonomy is no longer acceptable and suggests a practicable way of communicating risk

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