Informed consent

The aim of this thesis is to describe and evaluate legislation concerning the informed consent in the Czech legal system and propose its changes de lege ferenda. The thesis also comprises many comparisons between the Czech legislation and the foreign legislation. The first five chapters of this thesis deal with sources of legislation, informed consent as such along with information of patients as a necessary prerequisite for giving of the consent, other topics are refusal of medical care by patients and the so called advance decisions. Apart from this theoretical part the thesis also includes a practical part. The aim of this practical part is to explore implementation of legislation concerning informed consent in the everyday practice of hospitals and subsequently to compare this practice with the requirements of law. This survey was carried out by means of questionnaires, which were submitted to doctors relating theirs experience with using of informed consents in their medical practice. The purpose of this practical part is also to find out the experience and opinions of recipients of medical services, i. e. the patients, concerning different issues connected with the informed consent, also by means of the questionnaire method. Last but not least the thesis mentions many problems which are..