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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Human Rights > Patient Rights
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Human Rights > Patient Rights

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Patient Rights  

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  • Patients' Right
  • Patient's Rights
  • Patients' Rights
  • Right, Patients'
  • Rights, Patients'

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2002; use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001; for RIGHT TO TREATMENT use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D028701

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