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NEW HAMPSHIRE

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TITLE X
PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 135-C
NEW HAMPSHIRE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEM
Section 135-C:1

IX. "<< Informed>>  decision" means a choice made by a client or person seeking to be admitted who has the ability to make such a choice and who makes it voluntarily after all relevant information necessary to making the decision has been provided, and who understands that he is free to choose or refuse any available alternative, and who clearly indicates or expresses his choice. The choice shall be free from all coercion.

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/xi/151/151-21.htm
TITLE XI
HOSPITALS AND SANITARIA
CHAPTER 151
RESIDENTIAL CARE AND HEALTH FACILITY LICENSING
Patients' Bill of Rights
Section 151:21

IV. The patient shall be fully informed by a health care provider of his or her medical condition, health care needs, and diagnostic test results, including the manner by which such results will be provided and the expected time interval between testing and receiving results, unless medically inadvisable and so documented in the medical record, and shall be given the opportunity to participate in the planning of his or her total care and medical treatment, to refuse treatment, and to be involved in experimental research upon the patient's written consent only. For the purposes of this paragraph "health care provider" means any person, corporation, facility, or institution either licensed by this state or otherwise lawfully providing health care services, including, but not limited to, a physician, hospital or other health care facility, dentist, nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, physical therapist, or psychologist, and any officer, employee, or agent of such provider acting in the course and scope of employment or agency related to or supportive of health care services.


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