Study On“Information Disclosure”in the Doctrine of Informed Consent / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Informed consent is composed of information disclosure,competency,understanding,voluntary and deci?sion.In determining the adequacy of information disclosure,patients’rule or standard should be adopted.Medical care provider is in duty to disclose to patients substantive facts relevant to medical intervention.It is necessary to reasonably define what constitutes the“substantiality”of information.If there exists legal exceptional circumstances such as emergen?cy,the duty of disclosure of medical practitioner can be avoided.