Exam 12: Patient Consent

The best form of consent is ___________.

Although hospitals are not generally responsible for informing patients as to the risks, benefits, and alternatives to specific procedures, hospitals __________.

Verbal consent ___________.

The Supreme Court held in ___________ that a competent adult patient has the right to decline any and all forms of medical intervention, including lifesaving or life-prolonging treatment.

A physician is ___________.

It is preferable that a patient's consent to a surgical procedure be procured by the ___________.

When applying the objective standard of informed consent, __________.

___________ consent requires that a patient have a full understanding of that to which he or she has consented.

Defenses available to defendants who have been sued on the basis of failure to provide their patients with sufficient information to make an informed decision include ___________.

The burden of establishing proof in a complaint of lack of informed consent is on the ___________.

The courts generally utilize a "subjective" or "objective" test to determine whether a patient would have refused treatment if the physician had provided adequate information as to the risks, benefits, and alternatives of the procedure. Under the subjective test theory, ___________.

When a patient is clinically unable to give consent to a lifesaving emergency treatment, the law provides that ___________.

A patient's refusal to consent to treatment, for any reason, religious or otherwise, should be noted in the ___________.

In the absence of statutory protection, a procedure performed despite an individual's objections could constitute ___________.

The voluntary agreement by a person in the possession and exercise of sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent choice to allow something proposed by another is ___________.

Primary responsibility for obtaining informed consent from the patient lies with the ___________.

Informed consent is ___________.

An informed consent form should include ___________.

Adult patients who are conscious and mentally competent ___________.

Informed consent is a legal doctrine that provides that a patient has the right to know the potential ___________.