Abstract: A method for providing a dynamic, customized patient consent form for informing a patient of the risk of undergoing refractive laser surgery to correct vision by inputting dynamic and semi-static data to create a rule-based algorithm for calculating different risks of undergoing the surgery; drafting different explanatory paragraphs of the different risks; inputting individual patient data; creating a customized risk assessment and assembling a customized consent form by selecting the appropriate explanatory paragraphs.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 20, 2002
Publication date:
November 13, 2003
Applicant:
Applied Surgical Data Corporation
Inventors:
Ronald J. Link, Arthur Epstein, Kenneth Keith