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2.
LeeP., “In the Absence of Consent Sexual Assault, Unconsciousness and Forensic Evidence,”British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (2001): 1–61, at 26.
3.
MoskupJ. P., “Informed Consent and Refusal of Treatment: Challenges for Emergency Physicians,”Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America24, no. 3 (2006): 605–618.
4.
Pierce-WeeksJ.CampbellP., “The Challenges Forensic Nurses Face When Their Patient Is Comatose: Addressing the Needs of Our Most Vulnerable Patient Population,”Journal of Forensic Nursing4, no. 3 (2008): 104–110.
5.
HirshH. L., “A Visitation with Informed Consent and Refusal,”Legal Medicine (1995): 147–203.
6.
Id.
7.
Id.
8.
There is no single reference that pulls together state laws on the age of consent for minors. Each provider should know the age of consent in her individual state. For example, in Minnesota: “MN Statute 144.343 Pregnancy, venereal disease, alcohol or drug abuse, abortion Subdivision 1. Minor's consent valid. Any minor may give effective consent for medical, mental and other health services to determine the presence of or to treat pregnancy and conditions associated therewith, venereal disease, alcohol and other drug abuse, and the consent of no other person is required.” “MN Statute 645.451 Definitions Subd. 2. MINOR. “Minor” means an individual under the age of 18.”
9.
See Moskup, supra, note 3.
10.
ThomasA. P., “The CSI effect: Fact or Fiction,”Yale Law Journal Pocket Part115 (2006): 70–72.
11.
See Lee, supra, note 2.
12.
General search, “sexual assault nurse examiner” “consent,”Westlaw Allstates Database, available at <www.westlaw.com> (last visited July 28, 2010; registration required).
