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Descriptor English: Patient Rights
Descriptor Spanish: Derechos del Paciente
Descriptor derechos del paciente
Entry term(s) derecho al tratamiento
Scope note: Demandas fundamentales de los pacientes, expresadas en estatutos y declaraciones o principios morales aceptados de forma generalizada (Traducción libre del original: Bioethics Thesaurus). El término se utiliza en las exposiciones de los derechos del paciente como grupo de derechos múltiples, como en las informaciones sobre los hospitales, que exponen un listado de los derechos de los pacientes.
Descriptor Portuguese: Direitos do Paciente
Descriptor French: Droits des patients
Entry term(s): Patient Right
Patient's Right
Patient's Rights
Patients Rights
Patients' Right
Patients' Rights
Right to Treatment
Right to Treatments
Right, Patient
Right, Patient's
Right, Patients'
Rights, Patient
Rights, Patient's
Rights, Patients'
Treatment, Right to
Treatments, Right to
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.473.650
N03.706.437.650
SP9.242.315.395
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D028701
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Patient Advocacy (1974-2001)
Public MeSH Note: 2002; for PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001; for RIGHT TO TREATMENT see PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001
History Note: 2002; use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001; for RIGHT TO TREATMENT use PATIENT ADVOCACY 1978-2001
Related: Bioethical Issues MeSH
Patient Advocacy MeSH
DeCS ID: 36355
Unique ID: D028701
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2002/01/01
Date of Entry: 2001/07/25
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Patient Rights - Preferred
Concept UI M0016036
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Patient Rights
Entry term(s) Patient Right
Patient's Right
Patient's Rights
Patients Rights
Patients' Right
Patients' Rights
Right, Patient
Right, Patient's
Right, Patients'
Rights, Patient
Rights, Patient's
Rights, Patients'
Right to Treatment - Narrower
Concept UI M0016037
Scope note In law, the claim of persons involuntarily institutionalized on the ground of mental disability to receive appropriate care for their conditions or diseases. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Preferred term Right to Treatment
Entry term(s) Right to Treatments
Treatment, Right to
Treatments, Right to



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