6. Ethical Issues Flashcards
(53 cards)
is the written assent of a patient to receive a proposed treatment.
Informed consent
It is the most common concert in all the
imaging modalities
Informed consent
Health Care Providers, however, should
be able to provide patients with a process that renders them truly
knowledgeable about the procedures and
their alternatives
Informed consent
is the concept that patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate decisions.
Autonomy
means that one human person, precisely as a human person, dares not have the authority and should not have power over another human person. In a medical sense, a patient will not be treated without informed consent of his or her lawful surrogates, except in narrowly defined emergencies.
Autonomy
is important in considerations of autonomy
The patient’s right to information
Specific treatments such as surgery, invasive procedures, or experimental treatments may require specific consent, called _______, which confirms in writing what is planned and the patient is agreeing to as part of that plan.
informed consent
CRUCIAL ELEMENTS IN PATIENT AUTONOMY AND INFORMED CONSENT
- Maintenance of patients’ rights
- Provision of education to facilitate
consent - Promotion of human dignity
- Determination of incompetence
- Advocacy of surrogates
- Elimination of attitudes of paternalism
- Clarification of unclear communication
involving therapeutic privilege - Strategies for dealing with emergency
situations - Use of compatible parameters for
consent in specific health care facilities - Education regarding the ethical theories
involved in patient autonomy and
informed consent
Established a patient care partnership document, which is to be given to hospitalized patients to help them understand the expectations, rights, and responsibilities regarding their health care
American Hospital Association
EXPECTATION SHOULD INCLUDE:
-High Quality hospital care delivered
with skill
-Compassion, and Respect
PCP
Patient Care Partnership
The following FIVE POTENTIALLY CONFLICTING RULES may guide the Physician or the health care provider in explaining information to patients (INFORMATION DELIVERY):
- Patient preference rule
- Professional custom rule
- Prudent person rule
- Subjective substantial disclosure rule
- Institutional Rules Regarding Informed Consent
requires health care professionals to tell patients what they want to know.
Patient preference rule
states that the health care professional should give the patient the information normally given to patients in similar situations
Professional custom rule
measures the physician’s disclosure to the patient based on the patient’s need for information to make decisions regarding treatment.
Prudent person rule
Prudent person rule AKA
reasonable patient standard
encourages the physician to disseminate all information important to the individual patient.
Subjective substantial disclosure rule
addresses many of
the important elements of informed
consent
Prudent person rule
A combination of the \_\_\_\_\_\_ and the \_\_\_\_\_\_, which requires the physician to communicate meaningfully with the patient, provides the information the patient needs to make an informed decision.
prudent person rule,
subjective substantial disclosure rule
Imaging professionals must consider
institutional rules concerning a variety of
ethical issues, including informed consent
Provides information
patients want to know
Patient preference rule
Provides the
information normally
given to patients
Professional custom rule
Provides the
information patients
need to know to consent
to or refuse treatment
Prudent person rule
Provides patients with
all information
Subjective substantial disclosure rule
