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Saturday, November 21, 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...

Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Forensic psychiatry is a psychiatric specialty yet to be recognized in many countries. This review evaluates the current status and practice of forensic psychiatry in India and the impact of social factors as they relate to this ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Patient Rights'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From means to ends: artificial nutrition and hydration. 29 Nov 2009
• [Bureaucracy or knowledge-based practice?] 8 Sep 2009
• Errors on which doctors in Nigeria need to be educated about. 30 Aug 2009
• Ethical analysis of non-medical fetal ultrasound. 30 Aug 2009
• Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India. 30 Aug 2009
• Forced treatment of anorexic patients: part 2. 30 Aug 2009
• [Quality of dental care: new ideas of the government] 30 Aug 2009
• Patients as teachers, medical students as filmmakers: the video slam, a pilot study. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving patient-provider communication: a call to action. 30 Aug 2009
• Elective caesarean sections--risks to the infant. 27 Aug 2009
• Disclosure of financial relationships to participants in clinical research. 25 Aug 2009
• [The United Nations Disability Rights Convention - a first opinion by the German Society for Rehabilitation, DVfR] 15 Aug 2009
• "Through a glass, darkly": the clinical and ethical implications of Munchausen syndrome. 15 Aug 2009
• Patient privacy versus protecting the patient and the health system from harm: a case study. 15 Aug 2009
• Consent for case reports and medical images. 5 Aug 2009
• Evolution of patients' complaints in a French university hospital: is there a contribution of a law regarding patients' rights? 4 Aug 2009
• Getting to equal: strategies to understand and eliminate general and orthopaedic healthcare disparities. 3 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

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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