Abstract

ESCOBAR LOPEZ, María Teresa  and  NOVOA TORRES, Edgar. ANALYSIS OF INFORMED CONSENT FORMS IN COLOMBIA. ETHICAL AND LEGAL DIFFICULTIES AND SPEECH PROBLEMS. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.1, pp.14-37. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.1439.

In Colombia, informed consent arose in hospital care, following the same paths and tours of other countries, appealing to the individual autonomy. Initially extending to other areas and non-hospital medical specialties, involving other professions, especially in the last two decades. Mainly it appears as a legal requirement and basically as a written document, in the context of increasingly autonomous societies, which require rights and decisions about their health, body and life. This paper presents the principal results of the investigation about informed consent formats, used for the most frequent procedures in health care, where we sought to determine compliance of twenty-eight categories considered essential and eight desirable. Categories according to the legal norms in Colombia, the parameters suggested internationally to the development of these documents I.C. and the theory in Bioethics. We also analyzed the kind of language used in its elaboration, trying to establish: expert (technical) or colloquial, with the objective to identify the difficulties respect to the information provided in the documents. We reviewed the presence or absence of the categories and the use of language in 80 common formats (151 folios) of 22 institutions (hospitals - EPS - IPS), in 13 different clinical activities.

Keywords : Informed consent; technical language; bioethics; law.

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