Consent

White, Stuart M.; Baldwin, Timothy

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“…“Consent” is fundamental to the process of shared decision making between health care providers who relay information about treatment and patients who decide what can be physically done to them in the course of treatment 1 . Documentation merely acts as evidence that a discussion took place; it does not absolve the clinician or the hospital from potential liability if a complication occurs 2 . Local and national guidelines pertaining to consent are just that—guidelines, not law; however, they may help to interpret relevant law and determine the standard of care provided 3 …”

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2009

AORN Journal

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“…The current law relating to capacity [2] Legally, consent to medical treatment is valid if it is given voluntarily by an appropriately informed, competent patient [3]. Refusals of medical treatment are accorded similar legal status, provided the patient is appropriately informed, competent and acting voluntarily [4].…”

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The Mental Capacity Act 2005 – implications for anaesthesia and critical care

White

Baldwin

2006

Anaesthesia

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Summary The Mental Capacity Act 2005 is due to come into force in April 2007. The Act provides a protective statutory framework for decision‐making on behalf of incompetent adults, representing, in the main, a codification of the common law that had already developed in this area. For example, ‘advance decisions’ are now given formal statutory recognition. Importantly, the Act creates a new specialist ‘Court of Protection’ to manage the Act's enforcement, and an office of ‘Public Guardian’ to act as registering authority for new ‘Lasting Powers of Attorney’ and ‘court‐appointed deputies’, both of which will be able to make proxy decisions about medical treatment for adult patients without capacity. There is also considerable regulation concerning the participation of adults without capacity in research. Given that their practice routinely involves the medical treatment of adults who lack legal capacity, anaesthetists and intensivists should familiarise themselves with the Act's key precepts.

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2007

Anaesthesia

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