The Rights of Patients

ISBN-13: 9780896031821 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 315 str.

George J. Annas;Annas

Opis

George Annas, America's leading proponent of patient rights, spells them out for you in this revised, up-to-date edition of his groundbreaking classic. Thorough, comprehensive, and easy to follow-using a question-and-answer format in much of the text-The Rights of Patients explores all aspects of becoming an informed patient: hospital organization hospital rules emergency treatment admission and discharge the patient rights movement informed consent surgery obstetrical care human experimentation and research privacy and confidentiality care of the dying death, autopsy, and organ donation medical malpractice."

Recenzje

If you want your rights to be respected when you are hospitalized, get this book! -Boston Globe

Spis treści

I. The Patient Rights Movement.- II. How Hospitals Are Organized.- III. Rules Hospitals Must Follow.- IV. Emergency Medicine.- V. Admission and Discharge.- VI. Informed Consent.- VII. Surgery.- VIII. Pregnancy and Birth.- IX. Human Experimentation and Research.- X. Medical Records.- XI. Privacy and Confidentiality.- XII. Care of the Dying.- XIII. Death, Organ Donation, and Autopsy.- XIV. Medical Malpractice.- XV. The Patient Rights Advocate.- A Other Resources.- B. Patient Bill of Rights Act.- C. Sample Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney.- D. Right to Refuse Treatment Act.- E. How to Use Law and Medical Libraries.