Informed Consent and Ethics

Feminist perspectives on health care law
http://books.google.com/books?id=_CQqJn26Se4C&pg=PT92&lpg=PT92&dq=smear+test%2Bconsent&source=bl&ots=4GEaJ9aUv1&sig=ubONFUCKOgmnuOsvoxsAb1Z4pqo&hl=en&ei=nSUlS9yeLNKy4Qbf2Jj6CQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA8Q6AEwADg8#v=onepage&q=smear%20test%2Bconsent&f=false

Reaching targets in the national screening programme - are current practices unethical?
http://jme.bmj.com/content/24/3/151.full.pdf

Informed consent is missing from cervical screening
http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/11/informed-consent-missing-pap-smears-cervical-cancer-screening.html

The ethics of information: absolute risk reduction and patient understanding of screening
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517883/

Randomised controlled trial of the effect of evidence based information on women's willingness to participate in cervical cancer screening
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12883063

Patients & Informed consent
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/pecorip/SCCCWEB/ETEXTS/MEDICAL_ETHICS_TEXT/Chapter_6_Patient_Rights/Readings_Origins_of_Informed_Consent.htm

Are women sufficiently well informed to provide valid consent for the cervical smear test?
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119188012/abstract

Women must be given fuly informed information about cervical screening - BMJ article
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1115917/

General practitioner's perception of risk factors for cervical cancer development: consequences for patient education
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16533588?ordinalpos=1&itool=PPMCLayout.PPMCAppController.PPMCArticlePage.PPMCPubmedRA&linkpos=3

Informed consent? How do primary care professionals prepare women for cervical screening: a qualitative study
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15964735?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=3&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed

Added 21st Dec 09
US paper - the Competent Patient's Right to refuse treatment
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1335174/

Added 21st Dec 09
Interventions targeted at women to increase uptake of cervical smears
http://apps.who.int/rhl/reviews/langs/CD002834ru.pdf

Added 21st Dec 09
Interesting post on the manufacture of consent
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121609815

Added 6 Jan 2010
Rethinking informed consent - the case for shared medical decision making
http://www.informedmedicaldecisions.org/pdfs/shared_med_decisions.pdf

Added 6 Jan 2010
New Zealand Article on consent to screening
http://www.womens-health.org.nz/index.php?page=informed-consent-2

Added 15th Jan 2010
Little vignette on the subject of consent, by a GP blogger
http://afortunateman.blogspot.com/2007/10/up-nose.html

Added 13 Feb 2010
Pap smear brochures, misogyny and language - a discourse analysis and feminist critique
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9437963

Added 13 Feb 2010
Consent to screening (NZ)
http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/120-1266/2840/

Added 15 Feb 2010
A Scottish GP's opinion...
http://blogs.ft.com/healthblog/2010/01/11/suffragettes-and-screening/#comments

Added 25 Feb 2010
Gender and trust in medicine: consent, abuses and remedies
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/international_journal_of_feminist_approaches_to_bioethics/v001/1.1.rogers.html

Added 25 Feb 2010
Cervical screening - compliance and moral obligation
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119070429/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Added 19 Mar 2010 -bridging the knowledge gap and communicating uncertainties for informed consent in cervical cytology; we need unbiased information and a culture change
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119083731/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

Added 15 Jan 2010 Complex paper about attempts to persuade women into breast and cervical screening
http://www.gmpublichealthpracticeunit.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Screening-Final-Version-January-20102.pdf

Added 28th June 2011 - Blog post about plans for compulsory cervical exams in Polandhttp://myownwife.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/is-poland-planning-a-smear-campaign-against-women/#comment-65