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Bookmark or Share- Patient Rights | AMA-Code - American Medical AssociationPhysicians can best contribute to a mutually respectful alliance with patients by serving as their patients’ advocates and by respecting patients’ rights. These include the right: To courtesy, respect, dignity, and timely, responsive attention to his or her needs.
- Patients' rights - WikipediaA patient's bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care. It may take the form of a law or a non-binding declaration. Typically a patient's bill of rights guarantees patients information, fair treatment, and autonomy over medical decisions, among other rights.
- Patient Rights & Responsibilities - Mayo Clinic Health SystemLearn about our expectations for reasonable and responsible behavior (PDF) from patients, and their relatives and friends. Learn about your patient rights and responsibilities, privacy information, federal rights, chaperone information and more.
- 12 Points in a Patient's Bill of Rights - Verywell HealthThere are 12 key areas related to patient rights when accessing and receiving health care in the United States. They range from the right to privacy established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to, with few exceptions, the right to refuse treatment.
- Patient Rights and Ethics - StatPearls - NCBI BookshelfThis activity discusses, on an introductory level, ethical principles that translate into patient rights, patient rights currently enforced in the United States, with some comparisons to past rights and rights in other countries, and a history of how these rights came to be.
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