Competency of legal subjects in informed consent as a standard agreement

Informed Consent: Legal Issues

We mentioned previously that legal standards for appropriate informed consent disclosure of information often differ from moral standards. In this section we examine legal standards. Unfortunately or not, there are many different legal systems in the United States. Each state has its own set of laws, and in each judges are bound by different precedents. In the United States, as in countries lik...

Informed consent: a socio-legal study.

INTRODUCTION Informed consent [IC] is a recognized socio-legal obligation for the medical profession. The doctrine of IC involves the law, which aims to ensure the lawfulness of health assistance and tends to reflect the concept of autonomy of the person requiring and requesting medical and/or surgical treatment. Recent changes in the health care delivery system and the complex sociological set...

Electronic Informed Consent: A New Industry Standard

I-19: Informed Consent of Infertile Couples in Iran: Legal Controversies

s:3020:"1. Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran Iran 2. Department of Epidemiology and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Epidemiology Research Center, Royan Institute, ACECR, Tehran Iran Informed consent is considered the most important step in clinical interventions. According to the Beauchamp’s definition the consent is: “...an a...

Ethics versus legal informed consent--a distinction with little difference.

The core principles of dental ethics and legal standards of care have similar foundations. Both are dedicated to place the patient's best interest as primary and the practitioner's interest as secondary, Similarities between ethics and the law demonstrate that most often there may be distinctions but little core differences. Informed consent principles illustrate the comparison between dental e...