What is informed consent
The informed consent is free under, voluntary and conscious of a patient, manifested in the full possession of his faculties after receiving adequate information, to take place a performance that affects your health.
During clinical relationship established between the patient and physician, the latter informs the patient about any action affecting your health, so that the patient can understand and decide freely. In the course of this communication reports the doctor the benefits and risks of surgery in easy to understand terms, for both the patient and their family.
This process of communication and information between the physician and the patient ends with the acceptance or denial by the competent patient of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.
Overall informed consent es verbal, but the law dictates that lends written in some cases: in surgery, in diagnostic and therapeutic invasive procedures and those that pose risks to patient health.
You can download the document informed consent on the website of the Spanish Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, SECOT.
This principle of patient autonomy is regulated by the Law 41/2002, of 14 November, basic regulatory patient autonomy and the rights and obligations of clinical information and documentation (articles 8, 9 i 10 of Chapter IV).