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English translation: presumed consent (of a patient)

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German term or phrase:	mutmassliche Willensäusserung
English translation:	presumed consent (of a patient)
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23:07 Oct 16, 2009

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Medical - Medical (general) / clinical trials

German term or phrase: mutmassliche Willensäusserung

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This term appears in a list of documents pertaining to a clinical trial that is being approved by an authority.

Information für Angehörige und mutmassliche Willensäusserung - Hauptstudie

It is akin to Einwilligungserklärung (Informed consent form) but I am not finding a common term in English for this concept.

Any ideas?

Vielen Dank im Voraus!
t r e y

treychic KudoZ activity Questions: 184 (3 open) (2 without valid answers) Answers: 0
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presumed consent

Explanation:
See notes and google searches in my answer under "implied consent". You may feel that presumed consent is closer to the German and fits the regulations of a particular jurisdiction better. I do not think there is essentially a major difference between the two terms.

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Stephen Old
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Local time: 07:48

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presumed consent

Stephen Old

implied consent

Stephen Old

inferred consent/hypothetical consent/implied consent/

Ingrid Moore

presumed will (of a patient)

113160

presumable will (of a patient)

Ellen Kraus

alleged volition

Narasimhan Raghavan

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Definition: mutmaßliche Willensäußerung

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Discussion entries: 5

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5 hrs confidence:

alleged volition

Explanation:
Just a try

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-10-17 04:08:37 GMT)
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Only three google hits, hence the low confidence level.

Narasimhan Raghavan
Local time: 13:18
Native speaker of:

Tamil
PRO pts in category: 27

10 hrs confidence:

presumable will (of a patient)

Explanation:
the litteral translation for Willensäußerung would be "volition or declaration of one´s will", but in the present context none of these terms seems to fit. that´s why I would suggest der vermutliche Wille.

Ellen Kraus
Local time: 08:48
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German
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10 hrs confidence:

implied consent

Explanation:
Please see the link below which explains everything. Normally a person would have to give their informed consent before agreeing to take part in clinical trials but there are some circumstances in whic consent may be presumed.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-10-17 09:39:22 GMT)
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The link above is from an Irish website. This explains the broad principles in a simple way but if you Google "implied consent" you will find that most developed countries have a similar system of consent to treatment.

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Note added at 10 hrs (2009-10-17 09:43:33 GMT)
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the term "presumed consent" is also used- see Google

Reference: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/health/legal-ma...

Stephen Old
United Kingdom
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12 hrs confidence:

presumed consent

Stephen Old
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Local time: 07:48
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English
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Vielen Dank!

14 hrs confidence:

presumed will (of a patient)

Explanation:
or: statement about a patient's presumed will
see my reference and discussion

113160
United States
Local time: 02:48
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German
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16 hrs confidence:

inferred consent/hypothetical consent/implied consent/

Explanation:
Students of the law also spend a great deal of time studying other sorts of transactions—transactions marked by implied consent, hypothetical consent, or varieties of non-consent.
Ran: Hypothetical consent is consent premised on what someone *would* agree. Courts have thus afforded recovery to doctors who operate on unconscious accident victims on grounds that the victims "would have agreed" to pay for such care. But, of course, if the patient wakes up and tells the doctor to lay off, no claim for recovery will stand.
Prof. Bell: Thanks for explaining. Oddly, when I was training to be an emergency medical technician (EMT), we used "implied consent" for exactly the situation you're describing. (Maybe "inferred consent" would have been more accurate: an unconscious patient couldn't really imply anything, but that didn't stop us from inferring.) More generally, we used "implied consent" in reference to circumstances wherein an EMT is legally expected to act without a patient's informed consent; it could also apply in a case where a patient was known not to be competent to decide whether to receive a treatment. (Of course, since EMTs can't make diagnoses, and aren't qualified to judge a patient's competence, that's a much less uncommon occurrence than patients' being unconscious.)
http://agoraphilia.blogspot.com/2007/05/scale-of-consent.htm...

Ingrid Moore
Local time: 08:48
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5 hrs

Reference: Definition: mutmaßliche Willensäußerung

Reference information:
http://www.diako.de/fileadmin/dokumente/service/informatione...

keine Patientenverfügung vorhanden, oder diese ist
nicht eindeutig auf die vorliegende Situation anwendbar
(mutmaßlicher Patientenwille)

Entscheidung nach mutmaßlichen Patientenwillen. Existiert ein gerichtlich bestellter Betreuer, muss dieser zu Rate gezogen werden
und den mutmaßlichen Patientenwillen umsetzen, ansonsten Erforschung des mutmaßlichen Patientenwillens in Gesprächen
mit nahen Angehörigen, Bekannten oder Freunden. Berücksichtigung finden Auffassungen des Patienten aus gesunden
Tagen.

113160
United States
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 44

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