Patients' perception of quality of pre-operative informed consent in athens, Greece: a pilot study.

Background: We sought to perform a study to record and evaluate patients' views of the way surgeons communicate informed consent (IC) in Greece.

Methodology/principal Findings: A prospective pilot study was carried out in Athens from 9/2007 to 4/2008. The study sample was extracted from patients, operated by eight different surgeons, who volunteered to fill in a post-surgery self-report questionnaire on IC.

Informed consent: how much and what do patients understand?

Objective: We sought to evaluate the degree of patients' understanding of several aspects of the informed consent process for surgery and clinical research.

Methods: We conducted a systematic search of PubMed (1961-2006) to identify relevant articles.

Results: We retrieved 23 and 30 eligible for inclusion articles regarding informed consent for surgery and clinical research, respectively.

Health literacy and sources of health education among adolescents in Greece.

Unlabelled: Knowledge on health and disease prevention and adolescent satisfaction from the health care system are factors that can affect the adolescent's health status.

Objective: To assess the sources of health information of adolescents in a sample of teenagers from Athens and Crete, Greece.

Study Group: Data were obtained from a convenience sample of 369 adolescents aged 12-18 years from urban areas of Athens and Crete, Greece.

Mapping health literacy research in the European Union: a bibliometric analysis.

Background: To examine and compare the research productivity on selected fields related to health literacy of the current members of the European Union, the four candidate countries waiting to join the EU, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States.

Methodology/principal Findings: A bibliometric analysis (1991-2005). Data sources included papers published by authors from each country separately.