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Patient Advocacy

Pancreatology, 2008
Regardless of the treatment regimens and ongoing research we do as medical doctors and scientists, our bottom line is to improve the lives of those suffering from pancreatic cancer; certainly not an easy undertaking. In a previous issue of Pancreatology (April 2008, vol. 8), our editor discussed the importance of empathy toward our patients.
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Patient Advocacy in the 1990s

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
In this decade of cost containment in medicine,1,2 many of us have encountered insurance carriers that denied coverage for certain medically indicated procedures or treatments.
B, Weston, M, Lauria
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Patient advocacy: The Ontario experience

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 1984
T, Turner, M F, Madill, D, Solberg
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Diffusion of the Concept of Patient Advocacy

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2000
Purpose: To examine the growth and diffusion through the USA and UK literature of nurses' claims to patient advocacy.Design: A bibliometric analysis of articles cited under the key descriptor “patient advocacy” in the International Nursing Index (INI) was undertaken.
M, Mallik, A M, Rafferty
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The Ethics of Advocacy for Undocumented Patients

Hastings Center Report, 2013
AbstractApproximately 11.2 million undocumented immigrants have settled in the United States. Providing health care to these residents is an everyday concern for the clinicians and health care organizations who serve them. Uncertain how to proceed in the face of severe financial constraints, clinicians may improvise remedies–a strategy that allows our ...
Nancy, Berlinger, Rajeev, Raghavan
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Advocacy for Patients and the Profession

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Every aspect of our professional lives as orthopaedic surgeons, regardless of practice model, is affected by the policies and laws passed by the US Congress and implemented by the federal regulatory agencies. Similar dynamics play out at the state level for many other issues that affect orthopaedic practices.
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Patient Advocacy At the End of Life

Nursing Ethics, 1995
Caring for the competent, fragile, elderly patient at the end of life is becoming increasingly challenging. This case explores several ethical areas of concern that arise when caring for patients who have written durable powers of attorney for health care decisions and face life or death choices.
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Patient advocacy: a concept analysis

Nursing Standard, 2003
To clarify the ill-defined concept of patient advocacy and develop a model.An eclectic concept analysis was used in the study.Results of the analysis reveal that advocacy has three essential attributes: valuing, apprising and interceding. Antecedents to advocacy include a vulnerable population and a nurse willing to take on the responsibility for ...
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Patient Advocacy or Fighting the System

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1972
the systems we know for in them these people can only struggle to survive. And, when they become patients it is almost impossible for them to fight alone through the maze of public and private agencies for service. They become confused, degraded, and, in the end, largely unaided. It is such people we nurses must serve as patient advocates.
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Patient advocacy in palliative care

British Journal of Nursing, 1994
Advocacy is a contentious and topical issue and there is continued debate as to whether a nurse can ever truly represent patients' views and interests. This article will address this argument with particular reference to palliative care.
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