Consent with understanding: a movement towards informed decisions
Margaret K Mayberry and John F Mayberry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.2-6-523
Clin Med November 2002 Margaret K Mayberry
Leicester General Hospital, Leicester
RGN LLMJohn F Mayberry
Leicester General Hospital, Leicester
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The development of consent processes over the last decade is reviewed. The need for an understanding of information is recognised, although the legal definition of competence does not require actual understanding, but rather capacity to understand. The need to move responsibility for procedures towards patients is discussed in terms of an informed decision about choices rather than an informed consent to a single option.
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Consent with understanding: a movement towards informed decisions
Margaret K Mayberry, John F Mayberry
Clinical Medicine Nov 2002, 2 (6) 523-526; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-6-523
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