age of consent for medical
Physicians must obtain consent for all treatment,17 that is, anything that is done for a therapeutic, preventive, palliative, diagnostic, cosmetic or other health-related purpose, and includes a course of treatment, plan of treatment or community treatment plan.18. Physicians must obtain valid consent before treatment is provided. In order for consent to be valid it must:12. 1  be obtained from the patient if they are capable with respect to the treatment or from the incapable patient’s substitute decision-maker;  be related to the treatment; MINOR CONSENT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT. LAWS. Updated January 2013. This compilation includes state, District of Columbia, and territory statutes as of January 2013 regarding. minor consent laws to medical treatment. Please note there may have been changes to this area of law. since our last update. If the patient is not capable of making a decision with respect to a treatment, this decision is made by a substitute decision-maker on behalf of the patient.1 The legal right of patients to give or refuse consent to treatment has been codified in the Health Care Consent Act, 1996 (HCCA). DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS, CONTAGIOUS, OR. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONSENT BY MINOR TO CERTAIN MEDICAL CARE; LIABILITY OF PARENTS OR. GUARDIANS ...............................................................................................................................................28. CAL. Sections 10(1) and 11(1) of the HCCA. Physicians are reminded that they must have consent to share patient’s personal health information with any interpreter. For more information, see the College’s Confidentiality of Personal Health Information policy. STAT. § 13-1413 (2012). CAPACITY OF MINOR SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM TO CONSENT TO. MEDICAL EXAMINATION ............................................................................................................................18. ARIZ. REV. The test of capacity to consent to a treatment is not age-dependent and as such, physicians must make a determination of capacity to consent to a treatment for a minor just as they would for an adult. Any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married, may give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for himself or herself, and the consent of no other person shall be necessary. Under this section of Public Health Law, a person who is eighteen or older may give effective consent for health care. Public Health Law § 2504. Enabling certain persons to consent for certain medical, dental, health and hospital services.
Eighteen years of age or older.