410 ILCS 22/15: Informed consent.

(This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date)

(a) Nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the amount of information provided to a patient to ensure the patient can make a fully informed health care decision.

(b) An attending physician must provide sufficient information to a patient regarding all appropriate end-of-life care options, including comfort care, hospice care, palliative care, and pain control, as well as the foreseeable risks and benefits of each, so that the patient can make a voluntary and affirmative decision regarding the patient's end-of-life care.

(c) If a patient makes a request for the patient's medical records to be transmitted to an alternative physician, the patient's medical records shall be transmitted without undue delay.