2016 Idaho Statutes
Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 45 - THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT
Section 39-4506 - SUFFICIENCY OF CONSENT.

39-4506. Sufficiency of consent. Consent, or refusal to consent, for the furnishing of health care, treatment or procedures shall be valid in all respects if the person giving or refusing the consent is sufficiently aware of pertinent facts respecting the need for, the nature of, and the significant risks ordinarily attendant upon such a person receiving such care, as to permit the giving or withholding of such consent to be a reasonably informed decision. Any such consent shall be deemed valid and so informed if the health care provider to whom it is given or by whom it is secured has made such disclosures and given such advice respecting pertinent facts and considerations as would ordinarily be made and given under the same or similar circumstances, by a like health care provider of good standing practicing in the same community. As used in this section, the term "in the same community" refers to that geographic area ordinarily served by the licensed general hospital at or nearest to which such consent is given.

History:

[(39-4506) 39-4505, added 2005, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 382; am. and redesig. 2007, ch. 196, sec. 6, p. 583; am. 2012, ch. 302, sec. 5, p. 828.]