Informed Consent of Minors with a Special Focus on the Czech Legal Regulation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://tlq.ilaw.cas.cz/index.php/tlq/article/view/447/451" target="_blank" >https://tlq.ilaw.cas.cz/index.php/tlq/article/view/447/451</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Informed Consent of Minors with a Special Focus on the Czech Legal Regulation

Original language description

This article is focused on the examination of the law concerning medical treatment of minors, that is, persons under the age of 18. The first part of this article brings a short overview of the international documents regulating the rights of the child and specifically children’s rights within the area of health care provision. This article analyzes the issue of the maturity and competence of children and discusses whether persons under the age of 18 may be regarded as being capable of consenting to medical treatment. Furthermore this article brings a short comparative overview of the laws concerning medical treatment of minors in different countries and tries to extract the common features of the regulations in the different countries. Finally, the last and longest part of this article analyzes the issue of the capacity of minors to consent to medical treatment in the territory of the Czech Republic from the historical perspective and brings a structured overview of this issue under the current Czech laws

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-23804S" target="_blank" >GA18-23804S: Informed consent - legal and ethical aspects</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

The Lawyer Quarterly

ISSN

1805-8396

e-ISSN

1805-840X

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

126-140

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85103038618