Valid consent to medical treatment
When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, however, it can lead to aspects of the sound basis or the legal requirements being neglected. This...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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BMJ Publ.
2021
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Journal of medical ethics
Année: 2021, Volume: 47, Numéro: 12 |
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| Résumé: | When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, however, it can lead to aspects of the sound basis or the legal requirements being neglected. This article looks at how the term is used in a range of guidance on consent to treatment and argues for consistency.There are no data in this work. |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106287 |