The involuntarily confined mental patient and informed consent to psychiatric treatment.

Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center.

An involuntarily committed mentally ill patient was held to retain the right to refuse treatment with antipsychotic drugs, unless the committing court specifically denies the patient this right and authorizes a conservator to make an informed consent decision. The California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling which had allowed the forcible injection of medication into a patient who ...

Different Aspects of Informed Consent in Aesthetic Surgeries

Providing an informed consent has an important role in promotion of medical treatments and reduction of judiciary litigations in this process. Today with cultural changes and wide propagation that is usually charming, the request for aesthetic surgery has an increasing trend. These problems with complexity of cosmetic surgeries lead to deeper differences of information between plastic surgeons ...

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...

Course of Health Care Costs before and after Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment: Patient-Reported vs. Administrative Records

Background There is limited evidence on the course of health service costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, which might also be affected by source of cost data. Thus, this study examines: i) differences in health care costs before and after psychiatric inpatient treatment, ii) whether these differences vary by source of cost-data (self-report vs. administrative), and iii) predi...

Constitutional law--an involuntarily detained mental patient's informed consent is invalid for experimental psychosurgery.