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Illinois Compiled Statutes - Full Text
Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS)
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(410 ILCS 22/15) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)
Sec. 15. Informed consent. (a) Nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the amount of information provided to a patient to ensure the patient can make a fully informed health care decision. (b) An attending physician must provide sufficient information to a patient regarding all appropriate end-of-life care options, including comfort care, hospice care, palliative care, and pain control, as well as the foreseeable risks and benefits of each, so that the patient can make a voluntary and affirmative decision regarding the patient's end-of-life care. (c) If a patient makes a request for the patient's medical records to be transmitted to an alternative physician, the patient's medical records shall be transmitted without undue delay.
(Source: P.A. 104-441, eff. 9-12-26.) |