Ambushes related to collecting patients’ consent for medical procedures by family doctors

Mazandran based radiologists\' attitudes to obtaining patients\' consent prior to invasive imaging procedures, 2010

Background and Purpose: In some patients, invasive radiology procedures by using anesthetics and contrast may lead to certain reaction. Therefore, consent must be obtained from patients. At the moment, some radiology centers obtain the consent from the patient in some of invasive radiology procedures in Iran. Due to the importance of consent and its position in patients' ethics, and because of ...

Competence to give informed consent for medical procedures.

This study shows that referrals to psychiatry for evaluation for competence to give informed consent generally were made on patients who refused medical treatment. In this sample of referred patients, the only patients found to be incompetent to give informed consent were those with organic brain syndromes. No one with either schizophrenia or depression was found to be incompetent. It is possib...

Collecting Liability for Compensation for Medical Accidents

Compensation for damages caused by medical accidents is one of the important issues that have led to the transformation of social life into responsibility. The increasing number of accidents caused by medical practices and the consequent increase in casualties to patients makes it more than necessary to investigate the issue. While the legal system of some countries, including France, has taken...

Consent to Operative Procedures

Informed consent for medical procedures: local and national practices.

BACKGROUND No studies have assessed whether clinicians obtain informed consent for invasive medical procedures, and there are no explicit national standards to guide the process. HYPOTHESIS Informed consent practices are inconsistent for commonly performed invasive medical procedures. METHODS A simple questionnaire was electronically mailed and/or faxed to training program directors of crit...