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  • Patient Rights

Patient Rights(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Patient Rights
Used for/see from:
  • n: Patient's Rights
  • n: Patients' Rights
  • Right to Treatment
  • n: Patient Right
  • n: Patient's Right
  • n: Patients Rights
  • n: Patients' Right
  • n: Right to Treatments
  • n: Right, Patient
  • n: Right, Patient's
  • n: Right, Patients'
  • n: Rights, Patient
  • n: Rights, Patient's
  • n: Rights, Patients'
  • n: Treatment, Right to
  • n: Treatments, Right to

general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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.

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

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