AHRQ's easy-to-understand telehealth consent form

Summary

AHRQ's easy-to-understand telehealth consent form is part of AHRQ's Health Literacy Improvement Tools to help healthcare organisations, leaders and professionals improve health literacy.

AHRQ's telehealth consent resources include a sample telehealth consent form that is easy to understand and how-to guidance for clinicians on obtaining informed consent for telehealth. The consent form includes provisions for healthcare providers that have curtailed in-person visits due to COVID-19.

Clinicians can use the easy-to-understand language from the form when they are having the consent discussion and can use the form as a checklist to make sure they have covered all the information required by informed consent rules.