2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on Competence to Consent to treatment
| Project/Area Number |
18530055
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Civil law
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| Research Institution | Gunma University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAEDA Yasushi Gunma University, Faculty of Social and Information Studies, Professor (40209391)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2007
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| Keywords | Consent to treatment / Competence to consent / Competence for contract / Informed consent / Mental health / Accountability of doctor / Substituted decision / Agency |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examines the degree of assessing competence to consent to treatment. This report researches on problems of the consent to enter the hospital for mental incompetency, and, cases of informed-consent-rule.
According to the informed-consent-rule, a competent patient's decisions about accepting or rejecting proposed treatment are respected. And an appropriate substituted decision maker must decide for those patients who are incompetent to consent to treatment.
Parents ought to make a medical contract as an agency of their minor child for the best interest of the minor. When the best interest needs the medical contract, parents of the minor must to make this contract. When it needs a consent to the medical treatment for a minor, parents must to consent for the treatment as taking custody. They cannot refuse the medical contract and the medical treatment.
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