The rights of patients in Europe : a comparative study
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The rights of patients in Europe : a comparative study
Kluwer Law and Taxation, c1993
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"Published on behalf of the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe"
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Description
Based on contributions from all Member States of the European Region of the World Health Organization, this work on patients' rights offers for each country a point of reference to the situation towards the end of the 20th century. It also provides a basis for comparison and possibly for harmonization of measures between countries, which would considerably facilitate the process of health and social legislation in a future enlarged Europe. This book should be of value to a range of people because it goes beyond a mere account of the large number of laws surveyed in the study. The authors highlight, analyze and discuss the response of the legislator to the many and varied problems raised by the issue of the rights of patients in Europe.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Patients' rights: General trends
- Two kinds of rights and legislative options
- Legal basis. Part 2 Consent: Legal status
- Exceptions
- Discussion. Part 3 Information: Nature of the right
- Exceptions
- Discussion. Part 4 Access to medical records: Nature of the right
- Exceptions
- Discussion. Part 5 Privacy and protection of data: Nature of the right
- Access to data by third parties
- Transmission of data for research
- Discussion. Part 6 Secrecy: Nature of the right
- Exceptions
- Discussion. Part 7 Special categories of patients: Minors
- Incompetent adults
- Mental patients
- Subjects of research
- Discussion. Part 8 Promotion and protection of patients' rights: Complaint procedures
- Patient participation
- Ethics committees
- Discussion. Part 9 Enforcement of Patients' rights in formal proceedings: Civil or common law
- Penal law
- Administrative law
- Disciplinary law
- Discussion. Part 10 Conclusion: Continuation of trends
- Emergence of new rights
- International developments.
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