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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Presumed Consent

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Presumed Consent  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Scope note

  • An institutional policy of granting authority to health personnel to perform procedures on patients or to remove organs from cadavers for transplantation unless an objection is registered by family members or by the patient prior to death. This also includes emergency care of minors without prior parental consent.

History note

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019724

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