legal medicine

Informed consent to medical treatment in pediatric dentistry: a proposal for two new model forms for the public health care system

Over the last years, case-law and doctrine have increasingly focused on informed consent to medical treatments. This sensibility derives from the newly achieved awareness about the implications of the right to health and of the true interests underlying informed consent. Another reason is the ever-increasing litigation on the adequacy and correctness of the preliminary information given for medical treatments.

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