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Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. OCLC 23654449. Veatch, Robert M. (1988). A Theory of Medical Ethics....

Primary care ethics is the study of the everyday decisions that primary care clinicians make, such as: how long to spend with a particular patient, how to...

human dignity and collaborative care. The nature of nursing means that nursing ethics tends to examine the ethics of caring rather than 'curing' by exploring...

Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate may be an individual...

A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need...

and philosophy. It includes the study of values relating to primary care, other branches of medicine ("the ethics of the ordinary"), ethical education in...

attend to the needs and care of a patient, or the unintentional causing of injury to a patient, whether by act or omission. Patient abuse and neglect may...

in the form of shared decision-making, or patient-centered care. A nuanced definition of which was proposed in 2009 by the president of the Institute...

The doctor–patient relationship is a central part of health care and the practice of medicine. A doctor–patient relationship is formed when a doctor attends...

Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in...

on the patient's behalf if the patient does not receive them. A patient's bill of rights is a list of guarantees for those receiving medical care. It may...

Research ethics is a discipline within the study of applied ethics. Its scope ranges from general scientific integrity and misconduct to the treatment of human...

Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting and analysis of error and other types...

patients in hospice care often live the same length of time as patients in the hospital. A study of 3850 liver cancer patients found that patients who...

Informed consent is a principle in medical ethics, medical law and media studies, that a patient must have sufficient information and understanding before...

often faced with the moral question of whether or not to treat the patient. Much of the struggle concerns the ethics of letting someone die when they can...

genetics, the human dignity of incapacitated patients, media relations, organ transplantation, patient assessment, research ethics, sex selection, torture...

continuing care for patients within a healthcare system, and coordinates other care the patient may need. Patients commonly receive primary care from professionals...

2005), 114. Health Care Ethics article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Summary of the McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patients' Bill of Rights Understanding...

from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient (reverse isolation). Various forms of isolation...