Legal issues in blood banking. Elements of informed consent.
In the past, informed consent in pathology was confined chiefly to autopsies. Changes in both consent law and pathology practice led to consent being important in a broader sense in the laboratory. Areas discussed in this article include blood transfusion, tissue specimens, fine needle aspiration, and phlebotomy.
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Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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