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The informed consent process is a linchpin of health care risk management, but even the most earnest efforts to fully detail the risks of treatment can be for naught if the patient simply can't understand what you're saying or what is written.

Joint Commission warns on consent, literacy

The informed consent process is a linchpin of health care risk management, but even the most earnest efforts to fully detail the risks of treatment can be for naught if the patient simply can't understand what you're saying or what is written.