Wisconsin Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 10, 2017)

Section 18.03. Informed consent.

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Any physician who treats a patient shall inform the patient about the availability of reasonable alternate medical modes of treatment and about the benefits and risks of these treatments. The reasonable physician standard is the standard for informing a patient. The reasonable physician standard requires disclosure only of information that a reasonable physician in the same or a similar medical specialty would know and disclose under the circumstances.

History: Cr. Register, September, 1983, No. 333 , eff. 10-1-83; CR 14-040 : r. and recr. Register May 2015 No. 713 , eff. 6-1-15.

                    
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