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Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice with the Interventional Initiative

with Dr. Isabel Newton, Margaret Simor, MSN, and Susan Jackson MBA

Eric J. Keller talks with Isabel Newton, Susan Jackson and Margaret Simor from the Interventional Initiative about informed consent and helping patients make informed choices with newly developed Patient Decision Aids!

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Dr. Isabel Newton discusses Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice with the Interventional Initiative on the BackTable 203 Podcast

Dr. Isabel Newton

Dr. Isabel Newton is a practicing interventional radiologist at UC San Diego Health in San Diego, CA.

Margaret Simor discusses Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice with the Interventional Initiative on the BackTable 203 Podcast

Margaret Simor

Margaret Simor, MSN, is a nurse, hospital administrator, and board member of The Interventional Initiative.

Susan Jackson discusses Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice with the Interventional Initiative on the BackTable 203 Podcast

Susan Jackson

Susan Jackson is a cofounder of Interventional Initiative and Executive Director of Western Angiographic Society

Dr. Eric J. Keller discusses Making Informed Consent an Informed Choice with the Interventional Initiative on the BackTable 203 Podcast

Dr. Eric J. Keller

Dr. Eric Keller is an interventional and diagnostic radiology resident physician at Stanford.

Synopsis

In this episode, our host Dr. Eric Keller interviews a panel of leaders from the Interventional Initiative, a not-for-profit organization devoted to raising awareness of minimally invasive image-guided procedures (MIIPs) among patients and referring clinicians. Our guests are interventional radiologists Drs. Susan Jackson and Isabel Newton and nurse and hospital administrator Margaret Simor.

We start by discussing the origins of the Interventional Initiative, which started in 2015. After recognizing the public’s knowledge gap within interventional radiology procedures, the team decided to embark on a docuseries project to capture the impact that the field of IR could have on patients’ lives. This docuseries, entitled “Without a Scalpel,” is available on many streaming platforms. The series follows interventional radiologists and their patients in a variety of procedures and medical settings. Presenting new information within a film format has created a welcoming introduction to the field for both patients and physicians.

Next, we shift to discussing the Interventional Initiative’s most recent project, a collection of patient decision aids. These materials are unique because they are specifically crafted to meet health literacy levels in the general public. They also provide statistics and graphics that clearly communicate benefits, risks, and alternatives to IR procedures. Ms. Simor, speaking from the experience of an IR nurse, recognizes the knowledge gaps that patients struggle with when giving informed consent. She looks forward to sharing the decision aids with other providers. Dr. Jackson advocates for presenting the decision aids in a variety of formats (paper, online, app-based, EHR-accessible) so that they are most available to as many people as possible.

Dr. Newton describes the success of early clinical trials, which show that using the patient decision aids enriches physician-patient conversations, enhances patient autonomy, and even makes patients perceive that they spent more time with the physician. She encourages anyone who is interested in helping beta test the decision aid to reach out to the Interventional Initiative.

Resources

The Interventional Initiative:
https://www.theii.org/

The Interventional Initiative Twitter:
@Interventional2

Without a Scalpel Docuseries:
https://www.theii.org/the-docuseries

Disclaimer: The Materials available on BackTable.com are for informational and educational purposes only and are not a substitute for the professional judgment of a healthcare professional in diagnosing and treating patients. The opinions expressed by participants of the BackTable Podcast belong solely to the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of BackTable.

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