Wouter Leclercq

Insight in information provision prior to obtaining surgical informed consent by audiotaping outpatient consultations 97 6 The doctors’ documentation of SIC in the patients’ chart was examined and compared to the outcomes of the checklists. The total consultation time (TCT) and the time spent specifically on SIC [surgical informed consent time (SIT)] were recorded. The percentage SIT to TCT was calculated. Internal validation The reliability of the scoring process, performed by the first author (BBB), was tested by the second author (MMV), by re-scoring almost all of the consultations. The second researcher was blinded to the results of the first researcher. The inter-rater agreement was calculated using Cohen’s kappa coefficient.