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Abstract
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.
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16 entry terms
- Patient's Rights
- Patients' Rights
- Patient Right
- Patient's Right
- Patients Rights
- Patients' Right
- Right, Patient
- Right, Patient's
- Right, Patients'
- Rights, Patient
- Rights, Patient's
- Rights, Patients'
- Right to Treatment
- Right to Treatments
- Treatment, Right to
- Treatments, Right to
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6 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, standards, trends.
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general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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History Note
2002; use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001; for RIGHT TO TREATMENT use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001
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Previous Indexing
- Patient Advocacy (1974-2001)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Patient Rights. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D028701. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D028701
- Patient Rights. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients%27_rights
- Patient Rights. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1976740