Informed consent is a fundamental component of modern healthcare and represents a patient's right to understand and agree to a medical procedure, treatment or study. True informed consent empowers ...

BOSTON — Massachusetts teaching hospitals and medical institutions must obtain written informed consent before any sensitive and intimate examination, including breast, rectal, prostate, and pelvic ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is instructing teaching hospitals and medical schools to ensure they get written informed consent from patients before conducting sensitive examinations ...

Before patients undergo intimate physical exams, including ones performed under anesthesia, hospitals must obtain written informed consent — or risk federal funding. That’s according to new guidance ...

(AP) - Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an exam will be done while the patient is ...

Hospitals must obtain informed consent from patients before allowing physicians to conduct sensitive and invasive examinations, such as pelvic and prostate, particularly if the patients are under ...

Here are four findings from the updates: 1. Given the increasing concern over the lack of informed patient consent before training and education-related examinations outside of the medically required ...

Additionally, the patient must be informed of feasible alternative therapies. The two legal claims are distinct, and a physician can be sued for malpractice, a type of negligence, for failing to ...

FILE - An operating room is seen in Calif., July 27, 2010. Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — ...