Table 2 Summary of patients not consenting to participate in the study.

Reason for consent not being obtained	Number of ERCPs	Percentage of consecutive ERCPs during study period (n = 6910)
Non‐participating endoscopist	323	4.7
Patient declined	265	3.8
Insufficient time to obtain consent from the patient	734	10.6
Chronic cognitive impairment precluded informed consent	92	1.3
Patient too sick to consent	98	1.4
Non‐English speaker—translator not available	28	0.4
Sensory impairment (eg, deafness) precluded consent	18	0.3
Unknown	88	1.3
Total	1646	23.8

ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangio‐pancreatography.