Patient Understanding and Satisfaction in Informed Consent for Total Knee Arthroplasty
Patient Understanding and Satisfaction in Informed Consent for Total Knee Arthroplasty
A structured consent process, in combination with one or a number of the aforementioned
 modalities (nursing education, handout, video, etc), may reasonably be expected to improve
 surgical informed consent. The investigators hypothesized that overall patient
 knowledge/retention would be influenced by the type of consent process and that more
 intensive training and review would result in better patient retention and recall. The
 investigators further hypothesized that the knowledge retention would decline following the
 consent process and surgery, but in a stratified manner based on the nature of preoperative
 teaching.
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Inclusion Criteria:

 1. recommended total knee arthroplasty

 Exclusion Criteria:

 1. Unwilling to participate

 2. Unable to complete questionnaire in English