"Patient Rights" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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 ID |
D028701
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.473.650 N03.706.437.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Patient Rights- 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 Treatment
- Right to Treatments
- Treatment, Right to
- Treatments, Right to
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Patient Rights" by people in Profiles.
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Buchbinder M, Lassiter D, Mercier R, Bryant A, Lyerly AD. Reframing Conscientious Care: Providing Abortion Care When Law and Conscience Collide. Hastings Cent Rep. 2016 Mar-Apr; 46(2):22-30.
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Jafree SR, Zakar R, Fischer F, Zakar MZ. Ethical violations in the clinical setting: the hidden curriculum learning experience of Pakistani nurses. BMC Med Ethics. 2015 Mar 19; 16:16.
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Scheuermann RH, Milgrom H. Personalized care, comparative effectiveness research and the electronic health record. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Jun; 10(3):168-70.
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Mehta S, Myers TG, Lonner JH, Huffman GR, Sennett BJ. The ethics of sham surgery in clinical orthopaedic research. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2007 Jul; 89(7):1650-3.
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Schwartz MF, Brecher AR, Whyte J, Klein MG. A patient registry for cognitive rehabilitation research: a strategy for balancing patients' privacy rights with researchers' need for access. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005 Sep; 86(9):1807-14.
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Farber NJ, Davis EB, Robinson EJ, Weiner J, Boyer EG. Students' attitudes toward informed consent and the physician-patient relationship in regard to human tissue research. Acad Med. 1992 Sep; 67(9):612-3.
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Spaeth GL. Telling the cancer patient. JAMA. 1979 Oct 26; 242(17):1847-8.