2003 Volume 23 Issue 6 Pages 491-495
Informed consent is regarded to be very important in clinical practice today. Some systems to support it with bedside-terminals are being developed, but few studies that introduced such systems reported the evaluation by patients so far. This paper reports an evaluation of services on bedside-terminals by inpatients at the University of Tokyo Hospital. From the questionnaires, we found that they are willing to take more information services using the bedside-terminals. There are little announcement about the usage of the service and they don’t use them so much. We also found that the information about doctors in charge of inpatients are relatively required, that there are some troubles with the input devices and the position of the terminals and etc. To make the services better, we must evaluate how patients feel with such services and devices.
