Quiz 2
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Informed Consent
The voluntary permission given by a patient to allow touching, examination, &/or treatment by health care providers
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Respondeat Superior
Legal doctrine that holds employers responsible for acts of their employees
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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988
federal guidelines that regulate all clinical laboratories across the unites states
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Health Insurance & Accountability Act
This law created legal requirements for the protection of a patient's personal health information
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Implied Consent
The patient's nonverbal behavior indicates agreement
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
federal agency that oversees financing & regulation of the healthcare industry
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Bioethics
Usually refers to life and death situations