Medicina, Vol. 47 No. 1, 2011.
Pregledni rad
Informed consent – conceptual, empirical and normative issues
Iva Sorta-Bilajac
; Katedra za društvene i humanističke znanosti u medicini, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Sažetak
Informed Consent is a statement of the patient or subjects of a scientific research,
which empowers physicians or medical researchers to conduct a certain medical procedure,
therapy, or enroll subjects in the scientific-research protocol. In its theoretical settings, as
well as in practical application in everyday clinical practice, modern medical-ethical doctrine
of informed consent encounters three types of issues: conceptual issues (try to discern the
meaning and (pre)conditions of informed consent), empirical issues (try to find out, for example,
how much time should be given to disclose information in certain circumstances,
and how the information is understandable to the patient or his/her relatives) and normative
issues (try to establish when, how, and whose obligation should informed consent be
considered).
Derivation (formal and contextual) of the concept of informed consent from the ethical
principles of beneficence and autonomy, and finding of a ground floor in the domestic and
international medical-ethical-legal regulation of informed consent (Law on protection of patients’
rights, Helsinki Declaration, UNESCO’s Universal declaration on bioethics and human
rights) recognizes the presence of multidimensional framework for resolving morally burdened
issues present within the health care system.
Ključne riječi
beneficence; informed consent; medical ethics; patient rights; personal autonomy
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Datum izdavanja:
7.3.2011.
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