Informed consent: Hospitals must obtain informed consent prior to drug testing pregnant patients

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 455-457

  Gehringer, Katherine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRUG SCREENING; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PREGNANT WOMAN; SHORT SURVEY; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URINE;

COCAINE; NARCOTIC AGENT;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; LEGAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

COCAINE; CONSENT FORMS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; NARCOTICS; PREGNANCY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 0642277362     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00109.x     Document Type: Short Survey

References (23)

1. 308 F.3d 380, 388 n.4 (4th Cir. 2002) (recounting that a pregnant woman's urine would be tested if she presented with any of the following factors: "(1) separation of the placenta from the uterine wall; (2) intrauterine fetal death; (3) no prenatal care; (4) late prenatal care (beginning after 24 weeks gestation); (5) incomplete prenatal care (fewer than five visits); (6) preterm labor with no obvious cause; (7) a history of cocaine use; (8) unexplained birth defects; and (9) intrauterine growth retardation with no obvious cause").
2. Id. at 388.
3. Id. at 389.
4. I b i d.
5. Id. at 389-90.
6. Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 186 F.3d 469, 475 (4th Cir. 1999).
7. Id. at 473-74.
8. Id. at 480-81.
9. Id. at 483.
10. Id. at 476 (citing National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab, 489 U.S. 656, 665 (1989)).
11. 186 F.3d at 479.
12. Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67, 76 (2001).
13. Id. at 83.
14. Id. at 78.
15. Id. at 85.
16. 308 F.3d at 397 (citing Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 229 (1973)).
17. I b i d.
18. Id. at 399.
19. I b i d.
20. Id. at 403.
21. I b i d.
22. I b i d.
23. Id. at 404.