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The right to consent to healthcare is one of the most important patient rights, but it is limited in relation to children. The principle is that a minor patient who is 16 years of age or older consents to medical acts together with the designated...

The article addresses the issue of the patient's consent as a civil law event, the form of consent, types of consent, i.e. proper, substitutive, cumulative and defective consent. The author explains the issue of the patient's consent to a medical procedure. She addresses the issue of ...

Respect for patients' rights by medical staff is the basis of a properly functioning health service. The aim of this study was to analyse the knowledge and attitudes of medical staff towards patients' rights. The study involved 100 doctors (40% specialists) and 100...

Issues related to death and dying have aroused serious controversy in legal and medical circles for several years. For political and ideological reasons, the Polish legislator has not yet comprehensively regulated...

Paternalism is a part of traditional medicine in which the doctor's authoritarian approach to the patient prevails. The patient's autonomy in the paternalistic model is either very limited or non-existent. Since the late 1980s, there has been an ongoing critique of the paternalistic ...

The aim of the study was to find out the students' opinions on the observance of patient rights by students and medical staff during clinical classes. The study was conducted in the academic year 2009/2010 on a group of 152 sixth-year students of the Faculty of Medicine of the Gdansk...

The emergence of the vast field of medical law aims, among other things, to protect patients from the various risks brought about by advances in medical science. The importance attached today to the principle of respect for individual autonomy has further influenced the ...

Patients' rights are a set of entitlements to which a person is entitled for the use of health services. They are regulated by a body of law which includes standards of an objective nature informing what a patient can expect from the authority...

The patient's consent is the legal basis for any medical intervention only if it is preceded by appropriate information given to the patient by the doctor (informed consent). The doctor's duty to inform and the patient's associated right to receive information is...

Healthcare establishments are among the organisations for which ensuring the highest possible quality of their services is a priority value, because good quality translates into health, trust, safety and, above all, the life of the patient. Recent years ...

Link to book https://www.mp.pl/ksiegarnia/produkt/925 "The right to the protection of freedom is strongly emphasised in modern legislation. In turn, one of its spheres is the possibility of self-determination of treatment. Legislation therefore devotes a great deal of space to the issue of...

"Every doctor, whether he or she works in a large multi-profile hospital or in a rural primary care clinic, has a duty to inform the patient about various matters. The purpose of doing so is, on the one hand, to protect the health ...

Link to the book https://www.mp.pl/ksiegarnia/produkt/16205 "It contains a discussion of a number of cassation decisions issued by the Supreme Court as a consequence of appeals against judgments of the Supreme Medical Court. Their presentation is preceded by an introduction showing the statistics ...

This publication on the topic of patient safety is a comprehensive monograph covering the perspective of many medical specialties whose representatives are involved directly or indirectly with patients. Bringing together the most important findings from...

It is rightly argued in the literature that the patient is the basis and fundamental objective of the functioning of any health care system. When considering the issues of equal access to services, their quality, cost-effectiveness or optimising the way in which services are organised and...