Healthcare Legal and Ethical Concepts

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Advance Directives

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Legal documents for patients to make healthcare decisions in advance of a time when they may be unable to do so; includes living wills and durable powers of attorney for healthcare.

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Informed Consent

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Process in which a healthcare provider educates a patient about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a given procedure or intervention, enabling the patient to make an informed decision about their care.

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Medical Ethics

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Moral principles and values to guide medical professionals in their practice.

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Patient Autonomy

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Right of patients to make choices about their health impacting their care.

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Patient Bill of Rights

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Rights patients hold within hospital settings, as determined by the American Hospital Association in 1973.

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Right to Choose Providers

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Patients can pick the professional they are seen by.

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Right to Emergency Services

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Gives patients the ability to receive emergency care anywhere.

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Right to Information Disclosure

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Responsibility of healthcare providers to give accurate information about themselves to patients.

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Right to Make a Grievance

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Provides patients the right to make a complaint about their healthcare.

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Right to Make Healthcare Decisions

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Refers to the partnership between patients and their healthcare providers.