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Acta Chir Belg
October 2012
UZ Brussel Kinderen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Background: The law on patients' rights in Belgium was issued in 2002. The new legal framework recommends the establishment of a true dialogue between physician and patient, and it assigns decisive priority to the adolescent rather than to the physician or his parents.
Purpose And Methods: The purpose of this study is to map the current interpretation of the paediatrician and the realisation of the law in practice.
Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital
October 2005
Cattedra di Otorinolaringoiatria, Istituto di Odontostomatologia, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy.
The principle of informed consent, aimed at the lawfulness of health assistance, tends to reflect the concept of autonomy and of decisional autodetermination of the person requiring and requesting medical and/or surgical interventions. This legal formula, over the last few years, has gained not only considerable space but also importance in the doctrinal elaboration and approaches, as well as juridical interpretations, thereby influencing the everyday activities of the medical profession. Informed consent is still the object of continuous explorations, not only asfar as concerns the already confirmed theoretical profile but, instead, the ambiguous practical and consequential aspect.
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