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Healthcare professional standards in pandemic conditions: The duty to obtain consent to treatment (2020)
Journal Article
Devaney, S., Miola, J., Cave, E., Purshouse, C., & Heywood, R. (2020). Healthcare professional standards in pandemic conditions: The duty to obtain consent to treatment. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 17(4), 789-792. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10048-1

In the United Kingdom, the question of how much information is required to be given to patients about the benefits and risks of proposed treatment remains extant. Issues about whether healthcare resources can accommodate extended shared decision-maki... Read More about Healthcare professional standards in pandemic conditions: The duty to obtain consent to treatment.

Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims? (2020)
Journal Article
Tomkins, C., Purshouse, C., Heywood, R., Miola, J., Cave, E., & Devaney, S. (2020). Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?. British Medical Journal, 2020(370), Article m2487. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2487

Litigation related to exceptional circumstances would be a complicated drain on a workforce and system already on its knees after the pandemic, says Christine Tomkins. But Craig Purshouse, Rob Heywood, José Miola, Emma Cave, and Sarah Devaney argue t... Read More about Head to Head: Should doctors tackling covid-19 be immune from negligence liability claims?.

Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy (2020)
Journal Article
Cave, E., & Milo, C. (2020). Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy. Medical Law International, 20(2), 103-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533220954228

In the context of medical advice to patients, the UK decision in Montgomery v. Lanarkshire Health Board rejected the application of Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee. This article argues that the rejection is neither complete nor settled.... Read More about Informing Patients: The Bolam Legacy.

Valid consent to medical treatment (2020)
Journal Article
Cave, E. (2021). Valid consent to medical treatment. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(12), Article e31. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106287

When consent to medical treatment is described as ‘valid’, it might simply mean that it has a sound basis, or it could mean that it is legally valid. Where the two meanings are regularly interchanged, however, it can lead to aspects of the sound basi... Read More about Valid consent to medical treatment.

COVID-19 super-spreaders: definitional quandaries and implications (2020)
Journal Article
Cave, E. (2020). COVID-19 super-spreaders: definitional quandaries and implications. Asian Bioethics Review, 12(2), 235-242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-020-00118-2

Uncertainty around the role ‘super-spreaders’ play in the transmission and escalation of infectious disease is compounded by its broad and vague definition. It is a term that has been much used in relation to COVID-19, particularly in social media. O... Read More about COVID-19 super-spreaders: definitional quandaries and implications.