Medical Subject Headings

Last uploaded: March 22, 2026
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D019724
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D019724
Preferred Name

Presumed Consent

Definitions
An institutional policy of granting authority to health personnel to perform procedures on patients or to remove organs from cadavers for transplantation unless an objection is registered by family members or by the patient prior to death. This also includes emergency care of minors without prior parental consent.
Synonyms
Consent, Presumed
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class
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