Patient Rights - Ethics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration.

29 Nov 2009 The withdrawal, withholding, or implementation of life-sustaining treatments such as artificial nutrition and hydration challenge nurses on a daily basis. To meet these challenges, nurses need the composite skills of moral and ethical discernment, ... Read more...

Ethical analysis of non-medical fetal ultrasound.

30 Aug 2009 Obstetric ultrasound is the well-recognized prenatal test used to visualize and determine the condition of a pregnant woman and her fetus. Apart from the clinical application, some businesses have started promoting the use of fetal ultrasound ... Read more...

"Through a glass, darkly": the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome.

15 Aug 2009 Patients who present repeatedly for care with medically unexplained symptoms raise challenges for the health system. One proposed strategy for dealing with such patients is the introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) to identify these ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Rights - Ethics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• Ethical analysis of non-medical fetal ultrasound. 30 Aug 2009
• Disclosure of financial relationships to participants in clinical research. 25 Aug 2009
• "Through a glass, darkly": the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome. 15 Aug 2009
• Covert medication in older adults who lack decision-making capacity. 30 Jul 2009
• [Palliative care - difficult decisions at the end of life] 30 Jul 2009
• [Compulsory hospital admission - coercive measures in medical care] 30 Jul 2009
• [The rights of family members to make medical decisions for their incapacitated relatives] 30 Jul 2009
• The struggle for dignity by people with severe functional disabilities. 29 Jun 2009
• Medical pluralism in India: patient choice or no other options? 29 Jun 2009
• [Humanism and freedom of choice: what do we want to buy--and what are we selling? ] 29 Jun 2009
• [Nurses, patients and families. 7/8--The responsibility of nurses] 29 Jun 2009
• Right-to-health responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies. 11 Jun 2009
• Should implantable cardioverter-defibrillators and permanent pacemakers in patients with terminal illness be deactivated? Deactivating permanent pacemaker in patients with terminalillness. Patient autonomy is paramount. 30 May 2009
• Erring on the side of life: the case of Terri Schiavo. 29 Apr 2009
• Patients are entitled to maximal IVF pregnancy rates. 29 Apr 2009
• Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right. 29 Apr 2009
• Whence tendance? Accepting the responsibility of care for the chronic pain patient. 29 Apr 2009
• [Principle of autonomy: right of self-disposal till the end? A case report] 29 Apr 2009
• Attitudes to euthanasia in ICUs and other hospital departments. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Patient Rights'

Definition: Fundamental claims of patients, as expressed in statutes, declarations, or generally accepted moral principles. (Bioethics Thesaurus) The term is used for discussions of patient rights as a group of many rights, as in a hospital's posting of a list of patient rights.

Descriptor UI: D028701

Alternative terms: Patient Rights; Patient Right; Patient's Right; Patients Rights; Right, Patient; Right, Patient's; Rights, Patient; Rights, Patient's; Patients' Rights; Patients' Right; Right, Patients'; Rights, Patients'; Patient's Rights; Right to Treatment; Right to Treatments; Treatment, Right to; Treatments, Right to;

Related Mesh Headings: Patient Advocacy; Bioethical Issues;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; ethics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; trends;

Tree Number: I01.880.604.473.650; N03.706.437.650;

History Note: 2002; use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001; for RIGHT TO TREATMENT use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics