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Patient Rights

"Patient Rights" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Patient Rights" by people in this website by year, and whether "Patient Rights" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2007
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