Informed Consent

Additional Readings

Dispatch Articles
Complaints Corner: Informed Consent to Treatment.
Dispatch Magazine Jan/Feb 2003; 17(1):36–37.

Documenting Informed Consent.
Dispatch Magazine Oct/Nov 2003; 17(4):26–27, 29.

Ounce of Prevention: Treatment Elective? Informed Consent
Standards Raised.
Dispatch Magazine Oct/Nov 2003; 17(4):30–31.

Dental Fees and Informed Consent.
Dispatch Magazine Winter 2005; 19(1):28.

Complaints Corner: Key Elements of Informed Consent to Treatment.
Dispatch Magazine Spring 2006; 20(2):34–35.

Ethical Dilemma Case Study: The Ethics of Obtaining Informed Consent.
Dispatch Magazine Spring 2006; 20(2) 33,48–49.

Questions and Answers About Consent.
Dispatch Magazine November/December 2007; 21(4):45–48.

Ethical Dilemma Case Study: Who Cares for the Incompetent Patient?
Dispatch February/March 2008; 22(1):28–29, 34–37.

Informed Consent: Who decides on medical treatments for
critically ill children?
Dispatch Magazine August/September 2008; 22(3):19–21

Importance of Good Dentist/Patient Communication in the Informed Consent Process.
Dispatch Magazine February/March 2009; 23(1):22–23.

RCDSO Publications
Informed Consent in 2001: Don’t Leave the Office Without It.
Eleanore A. Cronk - Lax O’Sullivan Cronk
Dispatch. June 2001, suppl.

Practice Advisory: Informed Consent Issues Including Communication with Minors and with Other Patients Who May Be Incapable of Providing Consent.
August 2007.

Code of Ethics, Schedule 5 to By-Law No. 1, Nov. 2004.

Risk Management Guide: A Handbook for Ontario Dentists.
October 2005.

Staying Safe: Practical Advice for Staying Safe in Your Dental Practice. 2006.

Legislation www.e-laws.gov.on.ca
Health Care Consent Act, 1996 S.O. 1996, c.2, Sch. A.
Substitute Decisions Act, 1992 S.O. 1992, c.30.

Cases
Reibl v. Hughes [1980] 2 S.C.R. 880
Drake v. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario (2005), 194 O.A.C. 394; 2005 CanLII 4940 (Ont. S.C.D.C.)

Other Texts and Articles
American Dental Association. Risk Management Survey. Retrieved April 3, 2008, from http://www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/ riskmanagement_survey.pdf

Dickens, Bernard.“Chapter 5: Informed Consent” in Canadian Health Law and Policy, Downie, J., and Caulfield, T. Butterworths, 1999.

Dickens, Bernard. “Chapter 8: Informed Choice” in Dental Law in Canada,
Downie, J., McEwen, K., and MacInnis, W.Lexis Nexis Canada Inc. 2004

Hoffman, Brian D. The Law of Consent to Treatment in Ontario, Butterworths, 1997.

Rozovsky, L.E.R. Canadian Dental Law. Butterworths, 1987.

Rozovsky, L.E.R. The Canadian Law of Consent to Treatment, Third Edition, LexisNexis Canada Inc., 2003.