The effect of an introduction of a new consent form on settlement of the doctrine "informed consent".
Paternalism has been criticized lately in the japanese medical world, but it remained rather unfamiliar for a majority of the medical doctors to exercise the informed consent in the daily practice. It seemed that a consent form was one of the ways by which the medical and co-medical staffs became aware of importance of the informed consent. As it has been believed in Japan to be too formal to obtain a signature from the patient only for the evidence of the consent, it was worth while directing attentions of both the attending staffs and their patients to a renewed form, making them know that the doctrine of the informed consent had been introduced in the daily practice. Although it was an effective way, it turned out to be rather time-consuming process for a practical understanding of the informed consent.
Kikugawa General Hospital, Japan.
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D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D007564:Japan