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Informed consent in medical genetics

Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2008

Abstract

After more than a year of work in a selected group of experts, the results of which were discussed at the meetings of the Committee of the Society of Medical Genetics and repeatedly reworked and re-discussed, which would in today's dictionary might say tuning the Panel to the present version. The model number of documents used in foreign countries, such as Switzerland, which have been used and adapted to our domestic situation, which is in many ways very different, both with regard to the relationship of population to health care and its providers and the level of awareness of participation in decision-making about themselves and about things general.

The result, ie the preparation of the document, the Committee considers appropriate model of informed consent, which is useful for dealing with workplace genetic testing, and which can provide sufficient guidance on the objectives and purpose of the proposed examination and at the same time allowing the person to whom such examination is offered to him by decided. Informed consent should be mandatory for providers of appropriate forms of health care.