title: [Informed consent on pain management].
abstract: Informed consent is an essential concern to provide medical services centered on patient's needs. Its significant role is not to avoid legal responsibility but to respect patient's individuality. It emphasizes the necessities for sharing medical information including its uncertainty, listening carefully to a patient about his/her questions and anxieties and being worried with him/her in regard to the best ways coping with sufferings. In this article we describe important aspects concerning informed consent on pain management at clinical situations. It is necessary for physicians not only to have knowledge for pain management but also to get technique for appropriate explanation about analgesics.
authors.affiliation: Hospice, Yodogawa Christian Hospital.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikenaga
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsuneto
mesh_terms: D000700:Analgesics / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D010148:Intractable Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
chemical_list: D000700:Analgesics