Patient-Centered Informed Consent in Surgical Practice
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Patient-centered informed consent in surgical practice.
OBJECTIVES To review the medical, ethical, and legal basis of the doctrine of informed consent for surgery and its complications, particularly for an incapacitated patient who requires a surrogate decision maker; to discuss the elasticity of the consent doctrine, whether surgical consent encompasses consent for surgical complications, and emphasize the importance of communication and shared dec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Surgery
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0004-0010
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.141.1.86