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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

The study presented here discusses key issues concerning the legal nature and meaning of a patient's consent to a medical procedure. The considerations of consent are embedded in two complementary levels of research, the first of which...

The publication explains how the medical profession should be exercised so that this conduct complies with patients' rights, including, among other things: an introduction to the basic issues related to the protection of patients' rights and the sources of their validity, an extensive discussion of the catalogue of obligations...