RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Consent with understanding: a movement towards informed decisions
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 523
OP 526
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.2-6-523
VO 2
IS 6
A1 Margaret K Mayberry
A1 John F Mayberry
YR 2002
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/2/6/523.abstract
AB The development of consent processes over the last decade is reviewed. The need for an understanding of information is recognised, although the legal definition of competence does not require actual understanding, but rather capacity to understand. The need to move responsibility for procedures towards patients is discussed in terms of an informed decision about choices rather than an informed consent to a single option.