Informed consent: patient's right or patient's duty?

Medical Students' Attitudes Toward the Patient's Consent to Participate in Clinical Training

Introduction: Clinical education will be possible with involving patients in teaching-learning process. One of the patient’s legal and moral rights is patient's right to decide to participate in this process or not. This study aimed to examine medical students’ attitude toward patient's consent to participate in clinical training. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted ...

رضایت بیمار، شروط قانونی و حمایت کیفری از آن‌ها

One of the important issues in the field of medical ethics is the patient's consent to treatment. This issue has also been addressed in the law, and Islamic legislators have clarified the conditions of gaining patient's consent and approached questions such as legitimacy of treatments or surgical operations, capacity of the person giving consent and so on. In medical ethics, there are different...

Stress-reductive effects of information disclosure to medical and psychiatric patients.

Informed consent has become a central part of medical decision-making. It is based on disclosure of medical information to support patients' rights for autonomous decision-making from a legal point of view. However, information disclosure may also benefit patients. Research indicates that information disclosure reduces stress among patients and that the more patients desire relevant information...

The doctrine of informed consent: protecting the patient's right to make informed health care decisions.

Ethical Considerations in Respecting Patient's Autonomy and Right to Refuse Treatment: A case Report

One of the most challenging aspects of treatment is when patient seriously refuses the desired by treating physician. On the other hand, refusing treatment is a condition of the patient's right to be aware, but does such a right also imposes a moral obligation on the treating physician or not? This study discusses the diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosis disease. This article attempts to p...