Thesis (doctoral)--Ruprecht-Karl-Universitāt Heidelberg.

This thesis deals with the concept of the medical duty to inform focusing on the rights of the patient. It emerges that the notions governing medical responsibility do not adequately address the question of the protection and application of the rights of the patient. Existing conceptions of the notions of dereliction, causality and damage are analysed in order to point out the many inadequacies with the rights of the patient, source of the obligation to inform. Particular emphasis is given to the situation in Quebec and to the eventual place that could be occupied by conception of the duty to inform that is more sensitive to the situation and rights of the patient.

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Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.

Thesis (M. P. H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Also available in print.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Erlangen, 1930. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [vii]-xiii).

The informed consent doctrine is based on the idea that an individual possesses the right of self-determination and therefore should retain control over his or her own body. For consent to be valid, the patient must have the capacity to consent, and give the consent knowingly, and voluntarily. In defining these terms and developing guidelines for the implementation of the informed consent doctrine, the law has made many assumptions regarding human behavior. Three of these assumptions became the foci of this study. First, the law assumes that minors lack the overall competence necessary to render legally valid consent. Second, it is assumed that the provision of all treatment information will interfere with the individual's ability to provide a valid consent. And finally, it is assumed that physicians disclose treatment information in a neutral fashion. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the variables: age, information provided, and professional recommendation in the context of the first two components of the informed consent doctrine, capacity and knowledge. In addition, this study investigated the relationship between these variables and the treatment decision made. Sixty junior high school students and sixty college students were randomly assigned to one of six treatment variations in which the amount of information provided and the professional recommendation varied. The groups in each variation listened to two treatment dilemmas. One involved the problem of depression while enuresis was the topic of the second. The dependent measures included (1) the Capacity Scale, (2) the Knowledge Scale, and (3) the Choice Scale. It was found that adults scored significantly higher on the Capacity and Knowledge Scales than minors. Detailed information did not improve nor decrease subjects' Knowledge Scale scores. In addition, professional recommendation was found to significantly affect treatment choices made by subjects. The results was discussed in relation to the legal assumptions underlying the doctrine of informed consent as well as their implications for future research.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2002. / Title from PDF of title page. Document formatted into pages; contains 165 pages. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-165).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-151).

Professionals whose job it is to counsel patients must be cognizant of the role played by communication in the establishment of a trusting working relationship. This is no less true for those within the medical community who must obtain informed consent for surgical interventions than it is for those working within the area of mental health. In order to determine what role communication plays in the obtaining of informed consent within a pediatrics setting, a qualitative study was conducted of 20 surrogates (those individuals giving consent on behalf of legally incompetent children) and of 5 surgeons performing surgical interventions on those children. Two sets of questionnaires were administered in order to elicit information pertaining to how surgeons communicate information to surrogates and to investigate how that information is received and processed by the surrogate. Results showed that while the obtaining of signed informed consent itself may not be a major problem, there are some difficulties in the communication between surgeons and surrogates in this domain. Based on the findings, recommendations for improved communication between surgeons and surrogates are proposed.