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Overview
The Consent Manual is your one-stop resource for all legal requirements related to patient consent for medical treatment, release of medical information, reporting requirements and more. It details exactly what the law requires and what you need to do to comply.
(50th edition, 2024)
Contents
Chapters:
- Patients’ Rights and Interpreter Services
- Basic Principles of Consent
- Who May Consent for Adults Lacking Capacity
- Who May Consent for Minor Patients
- Treatments that Require Special Consent
- Refusal of Treatment and End-of-Life Issues
- The Medical Record
- Health Information Privacy Basics
- Medical Procedures and Interrogations Requested by Law Enforcement
- Research on Human Subjects
- Admission and Registration Documents, Arbitration and Liens
- Discharge Planning, Patient Transfers and Related Issues
- Maternity and Newborn Issues
- Deaths, Autopsies and Anatomical Gifts
- Voluntary Admission and Involuntary Detainment for Mental Health Treatment
- Mental Health Patients: Rights and Reporting
- Assault and Abuse Reporting Requirements
- Reporting Communicable Diseases and Other Patient Conditions
- Adverse Events and Incident Reports
- Other Issues