Consent to Treatment: Practical Guide 5e

Long regarded as the "go-to" resource by lawyers and health care providers alike, Consent to Treatment has been cited in over 100 law review articles and 20 court decisions, including a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding end-of-life choice-making.

The Fifth Edition of Consent to Treatment: A Practical Guide continues to promote the idea that consent is an ongoing communications process, not just a simple form. Use this resource to go beyond consent merely as legal defense tool to using consent communication as a patient safety tool.

This revised and updated single-volume library of patient consent topics and solutions includes these brand new chapters:

• The Art of Consent Communication
• Consent, Reproductive and Gender Health
• Consent, Communicable and Infectious Disease, and the Public Health
• And a new part to the chapter on Workplace Consent Issues focusing on consent for medical screening and occupational medicine

Consent to Treatment helps you:

• Formulate and enforce effective consent policies and procedures
• Navigate consent topics - both common and complex
• Stay in compliance with state and federal laws on consent
• Provides solid case analysis on important issues in consent to treatment
• Use consent strategies to promote patient safety
• Offers practical risk management insights to mitigate potential for consent litigation
• And more

Consent to Treatment, Fifth Edition has been updated to include:

• Discussion of Belgian law on pediatric euthanasia and the American College of Pediatrics' guidelines for managing end-of-life choice-making for children
• Discussion of the andquot;two physicianandquot; or andquot;two dentistandquot; rule used in some states to address consent issues when incapable persons are in need of treatment
• Effective use of Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders and Do Not Hospitalize (DNH) orders
• Review of the Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) policy statement on "Informed Consent of Transmissible Disease Risk"
• Examination of donation after circulatory death (DCD) in the context of protocol changes made by the OPTN in September 2014
• Discussion of what the term "elderly" means
• Discussion of the roles of family and friends and the role of a support person