title: Informed consent.
abstract: The requirements of consent to medical treatment, including the legal capacity of minors, psychotic patients, and prisoners to give binding consent to medical intervention, have increasingly presented a confused and anxious problem. A series of legal decisions of a binding or persuasive nature are analysed and five "rules", outlining the extent of the duty to advise and the degree of disclosure demanded by law, are advanced.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001315:Australia; D030881:Disclosure; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016365:Liability, Legal; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D033242:Minors; D011329:Prisoners; D012306:Risk; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014342:Truth Disclosure