Informed consent : a primer for clinical practice
"The process of seeking the consent of a patient to a medical procedure is, arguably, one of the most important skills a doctor, or indeed any clinician, should learn. In fact, the very idea that doctors may institute diagnostic or treatment processes of any sort without a patient's consen...
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Cambridge :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to clinical consent : laying out the territory
- 2. On capacity : can the patient decide?
- 3. Putting the informed into consent : information and decision-making
- 4. Voluntariness : the freedom to choose
- 5. Continuing consent : does the patient still agree?
- 6. Concluding thoughts on consent