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 ...
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Observance of patients' rights by medical personnel
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...
Patient's right to information under Polish medical law
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...
The role and rights of the patient in the quality of health services
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 ...
Consent to medical procedure
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...
Medical information in practice
"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 ...
Professional Liability of Doctors in Practice. Collection of Supreme Court decisions with commentaries
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 ...
Patient safety
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...
The patient and the health care system Current issues
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...
Concept, sources and scope of medical law Medical Law System Volume 1
This is a study that comprehensively covers issues in medical law. Volume I contains terminological considerations and collectively presents the characteristics of individual medical professions as professions of public trust, the principles of obtaining the right ...
Terminal conditions and the patient's right to the truth
In the book, the author searches for fixed and unambiguous normative signposts to help resolve the dilemma of the patient's right to the truth and his or her well-being: Where is the boundary between the truth and the well-being of the patient? This question needs to be translated generally ...
Act on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman Commenta
In June 2009, the Act on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman passed on 6 November 2008 came into force. The Act was part of the so-called package of health laws reforming the health care system. The Act aims to comprehensively systematise and ...
Medical law for nurses
Legal status as of 1 January 2013. The publication discusses the legal and professional status of practitioners of the nursing profession, including, inter alia, issues of: the legal prerequisites for practising as a nurse and the consequences of failing to meet them, training of nurses,...
Civil law measures to protect the patient as a consumer
Everyone has been or will be a patient, which means that he or she will become an element of the increasingly competitive and commercial market of medical services. The presented study is the first publication in the Polish legal literature that refers to the problematic...
Patient autonomy and Polish criminal law
Legal status as of 1.08.2008. The book discusses the issues of the criminal law protection of the patient's right to consent to medical interventions undertaken in relation to him/her and his/her right to oppose them. It places emphasis on the differentiation of consequences depending on...