informed consent Flashcards
An important legal protection is the right to give informed
consent to treatment
INFORMED CONSENT
True or False
A dentist who performs a procedure on a client without informed consent may be found civilly liable for committing battery
True
The basic principle of informed consent is that:
- Give proper education about the risks and benefits
- The patient has the right to choose freely whether to submit to treatment or not
- Unless the dentist has provided the patient with scientifically valid, accurate information about the treatment, a state of informed consent does not exist
Should reflect that the patient already has informed consent about the treatment option of the clinician
INFORMED CONSENT FORM (ICF)
WHO CAN GIVE INFORMED CONSENT?
- Any capacitated patient
- Spouse - if patient himself cannot give informed consent
- A parent or natural guardian in case of minors
- A guardian in case a person is incapacitated to give consent
- A legal guardian appointed by the court
- Duly appointed officers of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)
before a dentist could do a physical examination, the proper consent must be given by the patient
Non-Consensual Physical Contact
the patient has the right to be informed regarding procedures, risks, and alternatives, and answers to questions with respect to treatment, in terms that they can be reasonably expected to understand
Non-Consensual Medical Treatment and Procedure
The failure, without legal reason, to comply with the terms of contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT
It is also defined as the failure without legal reason excuse, to perform any promise which forms the whole or part of the contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT
Is the existence of an agreement or bargained-for exchange where one of the parties fails, without a legally valid excuse, to live up to his or her responsibilities under the contract
BREACH OF CONTRACT
True or false
A contract may be breached in whole only
False
A contract may be breached in whole or in part
a breach of contract usually occurs by one or more of the parties in one of the following ways:
- Failing to perform as promised
- Making it impossible for the other party to perform
- Making it known there is an intention not to perform
States that you cannot enforce contracts that are not in writing
STATUTE OF FRAUDS
What contracts must be in writing?
- Sales of real property
- Promises to pay someone else’s debt
- A contract that takes longer than one year to complete
- Property leases for more than one year
- Contracts for more than a certain amount of money, the amount of which is set by the state (500)
- A contract that will go beyond the lifetime of the one performing the contract
- The transfer of property upon the death of the party performing the consent
- Refers to the prescription period
- Every action has a corresponding period to perform
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
are laws that set the deadline or maximum period of time within which a lawsuit or claim may be filed
Statutes of limitations
- The deadlines vary depending on the circumstances of the case, and the type of case or claim
- Within how many years from the time of negligence or malpractice?
- Statute of Limitations
- 6 years
If you sue for breach of contract, you must sue within the ________
statute of limitations
“let the master answer”;
the dentist may be held liable for the wrongful act of his or her dental assistant
Doctrine of Respondeat Superior
a dentist with people using the dentist’s name as an agent even without permission, the dentist can be held liable if the dentist remains silent
Doctrine of Ostencible Agent or Holding Out Theory or Agency by Estoppel
applicable to visiting dentists
Borrowed servant Doctrine