Consent for anaesthesia

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 760-774

  White, S M ^a   Baldwin, T J ^b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: standards; Informed consent: consent forms; Legislation: jurisprudence

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; ASSAULT; BATTERING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COURT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LABOR PAIN; LAW; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGLIGENCE; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSURGERY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ENGLAND; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALPRACTICE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 0042242875     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.03202.x     Document Type: Review

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