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Issues of Patient Consent and Liability for Unauthorized Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

R. Jack Ayres Jr
R. Jack Ayres Jr*
Affiliation:
The author, R. Jack Ayres, Jr., is an Assistant Professor of Hospital Administration,University of Texas Health Science Center, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas and directs the Emergency Legal Assistance Program for Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Ayres also is a member of the Texas Board of Health and chairs the Emergency and Disaster Services Committee for the Texas Board of Health.
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Presented to the Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians, New Orleans, La., USA, 26 September 1988.
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Extract

Obtaining and maintaining patient consent for treatment should be one of first considerations in every encounter between the health care practitioner and the patient. The emergency health care provider must be able to make rapid and correct assessments of the patient's consent to treatment before such treatment is commenced. The following paper will discuss the primary issues in this area.

Type
Collective Review
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 231 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1990

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