UNIVERSALMEDICAL CONSENT

What this record is, and what each of you is entitled to

Every figure in this tool is drawn, as far as possible, from published research and named guideline bodies — among them NAP3, NAP4, RA-UK, BSG, BAUS, NJR, RCOphth, RCOG and SHOT. Each figure shows its source, and the mechanism behind it, when you tap ⓘ.

A signature belongs to the version that was agreed

Both signatures are bound to the document as it stood when they were given.

These are published figures, not your patient's figures

Figures describe populations studied in the literature. They are not adjusted for the person in front of you. You may change any number, and the document prints your figure. Clinical judgement remains yours.

What this is, and is not

A structured record of a consent discussion. It is not a legal instrument and does not replace a consent form your institution requires. Nothing you enter leaves this device.

You are never asked for patient details. Name, hospital number and date of birth are printed as blank fields and completed by hand at the bedside — so the document is complete, and the app holds nothing about your patient.

What leaves this device, and what does not. The consent document, your assessment, the conditions and medication you record, and every figure you change stay on this device and are cleared when you close the app. Two things do leave: anonymous usage counts — which procedures are searched for, which figures clinicians change — and the feedback survey, if you choose to send it. Before the survey is sent you are shown the exact contents. Neither carries anything about a patient.

Four states, not three

✓ Checked.

● Source named.

≈ Reasoned from another procedure.

Body named only.

Where the clinical terms come from

Unified Medical Dictionary.