Student nurses’ views regarding disclosure of patients’ confidential information
South African Family Practice, 2011 Background: Nurses have a moral duty to maintain the confidentiality of patients’ information. Challenges to maintaining confidentiality often arise because of competing moral claims of the patient, his/her family members and doctors.
M.C. Matlakala, J.D. Mokoena
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Prophylactic tracheostomy in aged and poor risk general surgical patients [PDF]
, 1959 The most common postoperative complications are those involving respiration, and they are especially dangerous to patients classified as poor risks because of age or other handicaps.
Farrell, JJ, Meyer, WH, Starzl, TE
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Awareness of patients’ rights among medical professionals
Journal of Modern ScienceObjectives Assessing awareness of patient rights among medical professionals in Poland. Material and methods Three data sources were analysed. The Commissioner for Patient’s Right (the CPR) own material was analysed and a comparative method was used.
Bartłomiej Chmielowiec +3 more
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JAHR, 2017 This paper presents some of the main aspects of the Directive 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, commonly known as the Patients’ Rights Directive, and as well treats the problematic exclusion of the long-term services from its scope.
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Medical error – civil liability for the damage
Pravo, 2020 The paper analyzes the civil law aspects of the responsibility of medical workers and institutions due to the damage caused by the doctors` mistakes in providing medical care. The aim of this paper is to present all the basics of physician responsibility,
Nenad Stefanović
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Presence Of A Congenitally Bicuspid Aortic Valve Among Patients Having Combined Mitral And Aortic Valve Replacement [PDF]
, 2012 Although bicuspid aortic valve occurs in an estimated 1% of adults and mitral valve prolapse in an estimated 5% of adults, occurrence of the 2 in the same patient is infrequent.
Hamman, Baron Lloyd +5 more
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The association between the prevalence of restless leg syndrome, fatigue, and sleep quality in patients undergoing hemodialysis [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: To determine the prevalence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) and to compare CRF patients with or without RLS in terms fatigue and sleep quality.
Ozkurt, S. +3 more
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Challenges to patients’ rights during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of public perceptions in North Macedonia [PDF]
Makedonsko Farmacevtski BiltenThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant challenges in upholding patient rights within Macedonian healthcare system. An online survey of 145 citizens assessed their perceptions regarding access to healthcare, informed consent, autonomy, and privacy ...
Katerina Kuzmanova +4 more
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Natural History Of Syphilitic Aortitis [PDF]
, 2009 No large studies of cardiovascular syphilis at necropsy have been reported since 1964. We examined at necropsy 90 patients who had characteristic morphologic findings of syphilitic aortitis. None had ever undergone cardiovascular surgery.
Ko, Jong Mi +2 more
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Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Offending and the Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities
Laws, 2017 Although the legal issues related to sexual autonomy and sexual offending are significantly different, the resistance to providing adequate and effective counsel and the employment of the vividness heuristic (to privilege anecdote and reject valid and ...
Michael L. Perlin +2 more
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