Hospital Risk Management - Consent Forms

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...of their responsibilities. If anything goes wrong, patients, their family or their survivors can sue the hospital for millions of dollars. These lawsuits do not have to be about malpractice, they can be about performing a procedure, giving an experimental drug, or enrolling a patient in a research or experimental program or any number of things. If any procedure is performed without a patient's consent, the courts will view it as battery (Yale-New Haven Hospital & Yale University School of Medicine, n.d.).
The consent form for hospital procedures has been in debate for a long time. Anyone who has ever been admitted to the hospital for anything knows how this procedure goes. Most often, the patient is presented with the consent form that may be one but is usually more than one and asked to sign it. The nurse or doctor generally explain that it just...

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