Limits to the right of access to clinical information in cases of therapeutic need status and subjective annotations. Special reference to the Spanish system

Abstract

The right to information has gained importance throughout the twentieth century, one of the pillars of health care and the physician - patient relationship, has some peculiarities, even if they have constitutional and legal recognition, far from being a absolute right. An example is in the Spanish Patient Autonomy Act limits the right when patient information enshrined, specifically two very important: the state of therapeutic need and subjective annotations. However, the law left open and willing to be debated issue.

Keywords

• Relación médico paciente, estado de necesidad terapéutica, anotaciones subjetivas, derecho de información, deber de informar.