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Overtreatment refers to interventions that do not benefit the patient, or where the risk of harm from the intervention is likely to outweigh any benefit the patient will receive. It can account for up to 30% of health care costs, and is increasingly ...
A recent report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, raises a number of issues related to health care practice across all countries.
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Jan 1, 2013 · A recent report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, raises a...
Jan 1, 2007 · In the healthcare industry, quality of care is more than a concept. It has become essential to patient well-being and financial survival. This chapter will discuss the complex concept and...
Nov 6, 2022 · Specific health attitudes and behavior are likely to affect lifestyle, presentation of symptoms, adherence to medical advice, and responses to illness. •. Major determinants are individual characteristics, illness perceptions, and interactions between patients and health care providers. •.
May 6, 2024 · This activity discusses, on an introductory level, ethical principles that translate into patient rights, patient rights currently enforced in the United States, with some comparisons to past rights and rights in other countries, and a history of how these rights came to be.
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Feb 24, 2018 · Medical interventions in seriously ill patients should not be shaped by a binary choice—curative treatment or palliative care—but by appropriateness. This is an alternative word to ‘futile’ or ‘non-beneficial’.