Legal And Ethical Concerns
Patient autonomy is a key concept in respecting the rights of a competent adult patient in
not accepting a transfusion. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has a long history
of training medical students and physicians concerning ethics and patient autonomy.
We have prepared the following sites concerning some legal and ethical issues and invite you
to visit them:
1. Ethical Issues in Advanced Transfusion Practices
2. Pregnancy
3. Treating Minor Patients
4. Mature Minors
