El consentimiento informado en PodologíaLegislación, concepto y estructura
ISSN: 1887-7249
Année de publication: 2010
Volumen: 4
Número: 1
Pages: 17-23
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Internacional de Ciencias Podológicas
Résumé
Informed Consent has evolved a lot in the recent years despite it was not really accepted at the beginnig by healthprofessionals. From legislative point of view this development has gone through Health General Law (14/1986)where it was already said that it is compulsory to reply the Informed Consent and, on the other hand, the recent Pa-tient Autonomy Law (41/2002) that speaks about what it is use for, who must receive it... and many other concepts.With this law it has been possible to change the relationship between health professionals and patients: It is moreimportant to respect the autonomy of the patient over the paternalistic principle based on “the search for the bestfor the patient”. At this article, we have reviewed and studied general legislation, as well as its advantages and dis-advantages