Lawyering and Client Decisionmaking: Informed Consent and the Legal Profession

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: the Medical and Legal Challenge of Our Time

OBJECTIVE To assess the real importance of obtaining informed consent, through an appropriate form, and its role in the outcome from civil liability claims. METHODS The wordings of the current Brazilian law and jurisprudence were compared with rulings from the State Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in 269 civil liability claims against healthcare professionals and hospitals. RESULTS Fa...

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...

Informed consent, confidentiality and privilege in psychiatry: legal implications.

There appears to be a need for understanding of certain basic legal concepts whenever informed consent. confidentiality. and privilege are discussed in medicolegal context. Informed consent to treatment is based on an "intelligent understanding" by the patient. To attain to an intelligent understanding. the patiellt·dient must be mentally capable of forming an independent opinion based on his a...

Informed consent for neonatal circumcision: an ethical and legal conundrum.