Abstract

The phenomenon of inappropriateness in ionizing imaging and medical interventions is large-scale and increasing. This tendency causes noteworthy damages to health and to patient's autonomy. Moreover, this trend causes a huge increment of health expenditures, waiting lists, organizational conflicts, judicial disputes, insurance compensations. The actual passive signature on unreadable templates of informed consent in the Italian hospital context constitutes, by a matter of facts, a central node of inappropriateness problem. This way to manage informed consent "event" model mortifies the patient's right to decide freely and deliberately, being him unaware of biological consequences of clinical-therapeutical interventions on himself and his progeny's health. Physician himself can generate arbitrary clinical acts, with heavy deontological and legal consequences. Hence, informed consent in ionizing imaging necessitates a particular"process" management, useful to convey a series of other clinical and organisational processes towards a full realisation of therapeutic alliance among physician and patient. This review aims at highlighting in a juridical and communicative key a range of tools which are applicable to contrasting the hospital abuse of ionizing radiations, for defending both patients' health and patients' dignity, being them primarily persons and citizens of a rule-of-law State.

Autore Pugliese

• Recchia Virginia

Tutti gli autori

• Dodaro A.; Recchia V.

Titolo volume/Rivista

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Anno di pubblicazione

2011

ISSN

0034-1193

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