Ethics, consent, communication, governance and research principles

Principles of Surgery in General · 14 questions

Consent and the material risk standard, the Mental Capacity Act, children and young people, confidentiality and its lawful exceptions, duty of candour, never events and incident investigation, clinical audit and governance, and the research methods and statistics needed to read a trial critically.

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