Patient Participation - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The struggle for dignity by people with severe functional disabilities.

29 Jun 2009 The purpose of this study was to investigate what strategies people with severe functional disabilities who receive personal assistance in their homes use in their daily life to achieve autonomy, integrity, influence and participation. Qualitative ... Read more...

A patient's duty to follow up.

29 Apr 2009 The allegations of negligence against Congress were that there was a failure to follow up the patient's diagnosis and treatment and, in particular, a failure to follow up the recommended cholesterol test and failure to follow up the referral by Dr ... Read more...

[The personal budget--a new system of benefits for disabled people]

8 Feb 2009 Instead of non-cash benefits, disabled people are to receive personal payments to help them to better manage their own support. This "tailor made support" has become a legal basis for a claim in 2008. It is aimed to pave the way for a new design of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Participation - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The struggle for dignity by people with severe functional disabilities. 29 Jun 2009
• States explore shared decision making. 22 Jun 2009
• A patient's duty to follow up. 29 Apr 2009
• [Deviations from a treatment agreement without the patient's consent require legal basis] 4 Apr 2009
• [The personal budget--a new system of benefits for disabled people] 8 Feb 2009
• [Patients' participation in the federal joint committee of the German health care system] 30 Dec 2008
• [Participation of representatives for patients in the Federal Joint Committee. Results of qualitative interviews] 30 Dec 2008
• [Tasks and experiences of the Federal Government Commissioner for Patients' Affairs] 30 Dec 2008
• Best interests, patient participation and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. 13 Dec 2008
• Pre-school children frequently seen but seldom heard in nursing care. 30 Oct 2008
• Medicaid program; self-directed personal assistance services program State Plan option (cash and counseling). Final rule. Oct 2008
• The use of pediatric advance directives: a tool for palliative care physicians. 21 Sep 2008
• Do physicians care about patient choice? 7 Sep 2008
• The do-not-resuscitate order: associations with advance directives, physician specialty and documentation of discussion 15 years after the Patient Self-Determination Act. 30 Aug 2008
• [Passive euthanasia in practice] 30 Jul 2008
• HIPAA threatens clinical research. 24 Jul 2008
• Never say die? 30 May 2008
• [Intraoperative neuromonitoring of the recurrent laryngeal nerve--informing the patient about the possibility of neuromonitoring in difficult thyroid operations] 30 May 2008
• [All patients' right to complete information--dilemma of health care services. No support by the law concerning mentally incompetent patients] 30 Mar 2008
• [Patient participation in german psychiatry - a critical review] 30 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Patient Participation'

Definition: Patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health.

Descriptor UI: D010358

Alternative terms: Patient Participation; Participation, Patient; Patient Participation Rates; Participation Rate, Patient; Participation Rates, Patient; Patient Participation Rate; Rate, Patient Participation; Rates, Patient Participation;

Related Mesh Headings: Refusal to Participate;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; psychology; statistics & numerical data; trends; utilization;

Tree Number: N02.421.143.262.300; N03.540.245.360.300; N05.300.150.600.620;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: "patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health"; do not confuse with PATIENT COMPLIANCE (see note there)