... and rights of the patient. Nursing portal Patient empowerment Health advocacy Ombudsman Organizational Ombudsman Geriatric care ... and the medical and pharmaceutical research communities. The origin of patient advocacy, in its current form, can be traced to ... and other health care organizations also employ people specifically to assume the role of patient advocate. Within hospitals, ... Patient advocacy is an area of specialization in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and carers. The ...

Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called ... Patient-centered care is also one of the overreaching goals of health advocacy, in addition to safer medical systems, and ... It was not surprising, then, that patient advocacy, like patient care, focused on the hospital stay, while health advocacy took ... Breast cancer advocacy Patient advocacy Patient participation Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in ...

Pregnant patients' rights regarding medical care during the pregnancy and childbirth are specifically a patient's rights within ... and to feed the baby according to a schedule she decides rather than according to a standard hospital regimen. Patient advocacy ... "Patient's Bill of Rights", advocate additional rights, including rights to the following: To receive medical assistance ... The new policy stated that decisions regarding medical care for pregnant patients would be made by the patient herself, her ...

Though medical care in state-run hospitals is theoretically free for Ukrainians, patients' paying money there to ensure they ... In June 2012 advocacy groups accused Health Ministry officials of embezzling money that should be used to treat AIDS patients ... Independent lawyers and human rights activists have complained Ukrainian judges regularly come under pressure to hand down a ... Corruption has become an immediate threat to the constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens. - President Yanukovych (April ...

... and Prophet by supporters for his advocacy of a role for patient choice and the right to obtain private insurance in the face ... "Editorial Board". BC Medical Journal. Retrieved 2016-09-02. Fayerman, Pamela (2016-09-01). "B.C. trial over private health care ... Day also supports the end of block funding for hospitals and a change to "Patient Focused Funding" where revenue follows the ... Proponents of for-profit care argue the opposite and that patients will be protected from the dangers of waiting for care. In ...

To help service users get their views across, the new Act puts in place the right to access independent advocacy services. It ... If you are a patient, you should be given the information and support you need to take part in decisions about your care and ... Unless a certificate is completed for someone who is already in a mental health hospital, both forms of detention are preceded ... is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which enables medical professionals to detain and treat people against their will on ...

Numerous breast cancer patients and groups were supportive, including Long Island breast cancer advocacy groups and ACOG, the ... coverage by board certified surgeons who are breast specialists rather than medical generalists, and surgery at hospital with ... Wider to take care of them? ... Too many women have been denied reconstructive surgery because insurers have deemed the ... The U.S. Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act, signed into law on October 21, 1998, contains protections for patients who elect ...

Although some medical staff bodies utilize the hospital attorney and accept hospital funds to try peer review cases, the ... Chudacoff's due process rights were violated by UMC. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-41 ... health care facility...or any other medical group in connection with bona fide medical research, quality assurance, utilization ... Roland Chalifoux, member of an advocacy organisation called the Semmelweis Society, had his medical license revoked in Texas in ...

"Plan Lets Ombudsman Go To Bat for Members," Managed Care October 2004 "Former Aetna Execs See Growth in New Patient Advocacy ... Core advocacy Clinical Assistance - medical and pharmaceutical advice and research. Clinical Assistance helps members ... arranging for home-care equipment after discharge from a hospital, facilitating review of test results with another physician ... Benefits Gateway+Health Information Dashboards offers a service that gets employees to the right benefit, through a single toll ...

Medical education Human resources planning for health care services Patient safety Leadership and career development Advocacy ... A wide range of subjects are covered like the rights of patients, research on human subjects, care of the sick and wounded in ... Associations IFPMA International Hospital Federation - IHF International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims - IRCT ... These include: The World Medical Journal The WMA Medical Ethics Manual The World Medical and Health Policy Journal Caring ...

While patient safety efforts have focused on inpatient hospital settings for more than a decade, medical errors are even more ... Casualty e-Patient Mature minor doctrine Nurse-client relationship Patient abuse Patient advocacy Patient empowerment Patients ... using of this patient type to care for people needing support to make the transition from in-patient to out-patient care. ... Bill of Rights Radiological protection of patients Therapeutic inertia Virtual patient Patient UK Janet, Howard. "Malpractice ...

... practitioner-patient relationship. Struggling between providing medical care for African Americans as well as maintaining the ... Morrison, Sheena M.; Fee, Elizabeth (2010-04-01). "The Journal of the National Medical Association: A Voice for Civil Rights ... advocacy, research and partnerships with federal and private agencies. Throughout its history the National Medical Association ... the NMA organized the Imhotep National Conference on Hospital Integration which publicized and challenged continuing hospital ...

The Right Care Alliance (RCA) is the sister organization of the Lown Institute and the advocacy wing. The Right Care Alliance ... His medical training included Yale-New Haven Hospital (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut); Montefiore Medical Center, ... patient-centered care, such as engaging the broader community in listening and storytelling. ... They also sponsor clinical programs to address overuse such as the Right Care Educators program, Right Care Rounds, and the ...

Patients should know their rights, and be willing to honor themselves by being proactive in their care. In all medical ... such as a hospital, clinic, or agency), or to a company or organized body (such as an insurance company or a government agency ... In the medical and psychiatric areas, emphasis is placed on self-advocacy or self-empowerment (patient empowerment).[citation ... Responsibility is placed[by whom?] on patients themselves to take greater roles in their own health care through self-advocacy ...

The scope of reviews by JCAHO is broad, including hospitals, home care agencies, medical equipment providers, nursing homes, ... Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection and analysis, reporting, education, funding and advocacy. ... This includes the development of the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights and the National Safety and Quality Health Service ... A patient safety organization (PSO) is a group, institution or association that improves medical care by reducing medical ...

Nurses comprise the largest single component of hospital staff, are the primary providers of hospital patient care, and deliver ... Registered Nurses treat patients, record their medical history, provide emotional support, and provide follow-up care. Nurses ... Most NPs have referral and admission rights to hospital specialties. They commonly work in primary care (e.g. GP surgeries), A& ... Many nurses also work in the health advocacy and patient advocacy fields at companies such as Health Advocate, Inc. helping in ...

OSHA sampled one hospital who paid for medical treatment of 30 staff members subject to patient initiated violence over a one- ... A study in Orebro Reginal Hospital in Sweden suggested a link between patient initiated violence, burnout, and decreased care ... of participants of workers in New England Hospitals stated they were aware of their legal rights relating to workplace violence ... Retrieved August 6th, 2016 from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/State/Legislative-Agenda-Reports ...

In 2005, the hospital deferred trials of a lung cancer medication because female patients in the trial would be required to ... A recently formed advocacy group, Education Equality, is planning a legal challenge. From 1930, hospitals were funded by a ... This continued right up until it was clear that the British-side was losing, then the Church partly switched sides. It ... Several reports detailing cases of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of hundreds of children while in the pastoral care of ...

The American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association (AMA) have spoken out against the board. The AMA wants ... These elements are concerning and unacceptable." Ron Pollack, the founding executive director of the health care advocacy group ... Burke J. Balch (October 2010). "Are ObamaCare "Death Panels" Truly a Myth?". National Right to Life News. National Right to ... a coalition of 26 medical specialties and patient organizations representing more than 350,000 physicians and their patients ...

The Values History is a "two-part advance directive instrument that elicits patient values about terminal medical care and ... primarily hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies) to give patients information about their rights to make advance ... However, by the late 1980s, public advocacy groups became aware that many people remained unaware of advance directives and ... Medical Decision-Making. 1994;14:9-19. "Living Wills, Health Care Proxies, & Advance Health Care Directives". ABA. American Bar ...

... with the ultimate goal to improve patient care and satisfaction, increase hospital efficiency and provide better value for ... In 2010, Chicago's Mercy Hospital and Medical Center carried out an investigation into new ways that the hospital could ... Face-to-face interpreting support is a much more personal method of advocacy, however such an interpreter needs to be scheduled ... and proved so successful that they went on to incorporate the program into their Windsor Police Service Human Rights Project as ...

Before the development of medical expense insurance, patients were expected to pay health care costs out of their own pockets, ... defined primarily as care delivered by physicians or in hospitals, and the nursing component of long term residential care. If ... In the late 1990s and early 2000s, health advocacy companies began to appear to help patients deal with the complexities of the ... prohibition on private insurance for health care already insured by the provincial plan violated the Quebec Charter of Rights ...

"The Experiences of an Asylum Patient". We Are Not Alone (WANA) was founded by a group of patients at Rockland State Hospital in ... Common themes are "talking back to the power of psychiatry", rights protection and advocacy, and self-determination. While ... A patronizing attitude by some health care workers led to resentment among some current and former patients, which eventually ... Unlike professional mental health services, which were usually based on the medical model, peer-run services were based on the ...

32-Third Party Liability for Hospital and Medical Care 42 U.S.C. ch. 33-Community Mental Health Centers 42 U.S.C. ch. 34- ... 20A-Civil Rights Commission 42 U.S.C. ch. 21-Civil Rights 42 U.S.C. ch. 21A-Privacy Protection 42 U.S.C. ch. 21B-Religious ... 107: Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety 42 U.S.C. ch. 108: Nuclear Waste Policy 42 U.S.C. ch. 109: Water Resources ... 114: Protection And Advocacy For Mentally Ill Individuals 42 U.S.C. ch. 115: Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance ...

Reports/syria-attacks-on-drs-patients-hospitals-final-2011.pdf Retrieved February 21, 20122. Physicians for Human Rights, ... Medical neutrality is violated when health care professionals, facilities, or patients come under attack, or when medical ... where they continue their medical and advocacy work. During the 2011 Libyan Civil War, human rights groups documented ... on medical transport Misuse of medical facilities Breaches of medical ethics by medical personnel Using the hospital/Medical ...

Public and formal opposition was not well organized and mostly came from advocates of medical cannabis, who objected to "Part V: Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana".[47][48] A key spokesperson was Steve Sarich, whom an Esquire blog has called one of the "great marijuana prohibitionists of 2012."[49] A Facebook group, Patients Against New Approach Washington (PANAW) began vocal opposition.[50] A letter was sent to I-502 sponsors by Richard Bayer, MD; lawyers David Arganian and Jeffrey Steinborn; Gil Mobley, MD; Vivian McPeak, Executive Director of Seattle Hempfest; and Ric Smith, who has been a prominent patient advocate since 1996, arguing that I-502's DUIC language was unnecessary, unscientific, and unfair.[51] Dominic Holden, of The Stranger, disagreed with this criticism, citing the same 2009 study from the National Institutes of Health opponents to 502 had referenced.[52] The board of directors for NORML ...

... or Rac may refer to: RAC Limited, a British company which provides products and services for motorists Rent-A-Center, an American public furniture and electronics rent to own company Radio Amateurs of Canada or Radio Amateurs du Canada, an association of Canadian amateur radio operators Refugee Action Collective (Victoria), a grassroots refugee advocacy group in Melbourne, Australia Religious Action Center, the political outreach body of Reform Judaism in the United States Riverside Arts Council, an art council in California, USA Royal African Company, a slave-trade company Royal Agricultural College, the former name of the Royal Agricultural University Royal Automobile Club (disambiguation), several motoring organisations Royal Automobile Club, a British private club of automobile enthusiasts Royal Automobile Club Foundation, a British motoring advocacy group Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia, a Western Australian motoring organization Russian-American ...

The embryos that became Lulu and Nana were generated during a clinical trial run by He of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, while he was on leave from the university and working through Shenzhen Harmonicare Women's and Children's Hospital.[11] The trial had recruited couples who wanted to have children; in order to participate, the man had to be HIV-positive and the woman, uninfected.[11] The couples were recruited through a Beijing-based AIDS advocacy group called Baihualin.[11] He kept the clinical trial secret from the scientific community, and, as of 28 November, it was unclear whether the participants had given truly informed consent.[4][12] He, the researcher, took sperm and eggs from the couples, performed in vitro fertilization with them, and then edited the genomes of the embryos using CRISPR/Cas9.[11] The editing targeted a gene, CCR5, that codes for a protein that HIV uses to enter cells.[12][13] He was trying to ...

The project was criticized because the Red Line route passes through territories Israel has held under occupation since the Six-Day War to service Israeli settlements such as French Hill and Pisgat Ze'ev.[58] In consequence, Dutch bank ASN divested from Veolia Environnement.[59] Both Veolia and Alstom were sued by the Palestine Liberation Organisation and French advocacy group Association France-Palestine Solidarité in the French courts.[60][61] In 2013, the Versailles Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the French companies, and ordered the Palestinian groups to pay $117,000 in legal costs to the French companies. In the 32-page verdict, the judges ruled that the light rail did not violate international law.[62] A large proportion of the train's passengers are Arabs.[63] In May 2009 it was reported that the Palestinian Authority had been urging Saudi Arabia through back channels to pressure Alstom and Veolia to abandon the project in return for the multi-billion dollar Haramain High Speed ...

The anti-abortion movement is support for the view that abortion is wrong. Another word for this movement is pro-life (meaning support for life). These people think that abortion is wrong and that the law should not allow it. On the other hand, people who think the law should let women decide whether to have abortions are called pro-choice. People who are pro-life believe that all humans, including the unborn, have a right to life. For this reason, they believe abortion is wrong and that it is murder. They believe that an unborn baby has life as soon as it has been conceived, so they believe the law should make abortion a crime to protect innocent life while in the womb. Many pro-life people think women who are pregnant and do not want to raise a child should look for alternatives to abortion such as adoption. Some pro-life people think that abortion is okay in some conditions such as rape or incest. There are many advocacy groups that want to help women considering abortion, and try to ...

The Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) represents the interests of over 100,000 Alberta university students across Alberta. They represent undergraduate students from the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, Mount Royal University, and MacEwan University to the public, government and other post-secondary education stakeholders. Based in Edmonton, CAUS is a non-partisan and active advocacy group looking to ensure a fully accessible and high quality system of education in Alberta. The Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) was created in 1986 after the disintegration of the Federation of Alberta Students (FAS). FAS was a provincial umbrella organization that represented all of the public post-secondary institutions in Alberta; the organization fell apart in 1981 when a number of colleges and technical institutes withdrew their membership from the organization because they felt that the universities dominated the Federation. Out of ...

Mariners spend much of their life beyond the reach of land. They sometimes face dangerous conditions at sea or on Lakes - the fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts has a seaside memorial listing over 10,000 fishermen that lost their lives to the sea, and the Great Lakes have seen over 10,000 lost vessels since the 1800s, yet men and women still go to sea. For some, the attraction is a life unencumbered with the restraints of life ashore. Seagoing adventure and a chance to see the world also appeal to many seafarers. Whatever the calling, those who live and work at sea invariably confront social isolation.. Findings by the Seafarer's International Research Center indicate a leading cause of mariners leaving the industry is "almost invariably because they want to be with their families." U.S. merchant ships typically do not allow family members to accompany seafarers on voyages. Industry experts increasingly recognize isolation, stress, and fatigue as occupational hazards. Advocacy groups ...

The history of intersex surgery is intertwined with the development of the specialities of pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, and pediatric endocrinology, with our increasingly refined understanding of sexual differentiation, with the development of political advocacy groups united by a human qualified analysis, and in the last decade by doubts as to efficacy, and controversy over when and even whether some procedures should be performed. Prior to the medicalization of intersex, Canon and common law referred to a person's sex as male, female or hermaphrodite, with legal rights as male or female depending on the characteristics that appeared most dominant. The foundation of common law, the Institutes of the Lawes of England described how a hermaphrodite could inherit "either as male or female, according to that kind of sexe which doth prevaile." Single cases have been described by legal cases sporadically over the centuries. Modern ideas of ...

... is a European advocacy group based in Belgium that promotes the practice of cogeneration in energy production. The group acts as a liaison between its member companies and European Union energy organizations and committees.[1][2][3]. The managing director of COGEN Europe is also the coordinator of the ene.field project.[4]. ...

Katie Olivia Hopkins (born 13 February 1975) is an English media personality. She first came to notice in 2007 as a reality television contestant and later became a columnist for British newspapers, initially The Sun (from October 2013) and later the MailOnline (from autumn 2015 until 2017). Hopkins has been accused of racism by journalists, advocacy groups and politicians for her comments about migrants. Her role as a presenter for the radio station LBC was terminated in May 2017 following her comments on Twitter about the Manchester Arena bombing. In 2016, Mail Online was forced to pay £150,000 to a Muslim family whom Hopkins had falsely accused of extremist links; and in a 2017 libel case, Hopkins was personally required to pay £24,000 in damages and £107,000 in legal costs to Jack Monroe after making defamatory remarks on Twitter. Later in 2017, Mail Online was forced to pay substantial damages and legal costs to a teacher about whom Hopkins had made false claims. A day before, in late ...

Although many diseases (such as heart failure) may have a worse prognosis than most cases of cancer, cancer is the subject of widespread fear and taboos. The euphemism of "a long illness" to describe cancers leading to death is still commonly used in obituaries, rather than naming the disease explicitly, reflecting an apparent stigma.[198] In Nigeria, one local name for cancer translates into English as "the disease that cannot be cured".[199] This deep belief that cancer is necessarily a difficult and usually deadly disease is reflected in the systems chosen by society to compile cancer statistics: the most common form of cancer-non-melanoma skin cancers, accounting for about one-third of cancer cases worldwide, but very few deaths[200][201]-are excluded from cancer statistics specifically because they are easily treated and almost always cured, often in a single, short, outpatient procedure.[202] Western conceptions of patients' ...

Although many diseases (such as heart failure) may have a worse prognosis than most cases of cancer, cancer is the subject of widespread fear and taboos. The euphemism of "a long illness" to describe cancers leading to death is still commonly used in obituaries, rather than naming the disease explicitly, reflecting an apparent stigma.[190] In Nigeria, one local name for cancer translates into English as "the disease that cannot be cured".[191] This deep belief that cancer is necessarily a difficult and usually deadly disease is reflected in the systems chosen by society to compile cancer statistics: the most common form of cancer-non-melanoma skin cancers, accounting for about one-third of cancer cases worldwide, but very few deaths[192][193]-are excluded from cancer statistics specifically because they are easily treated and almost always cured, often in a single, short, outpatient procedure.[194] Western conceptions of patients' ...

The Liberty Alliance Project was an organization formed in September 2001 to establish standards, guidelines and best practices for identity management in computer systems. It grew to more than 150 organizations, including technology vendors, consumer-facing companies, educational organizations and governments. It released frameworks for federation, identity assurance, an Identity Governance Framework, and Identity Web Services. By 2009, the Kantara Initiative took over the work of the Liberty Alliance. The group was originally conceived and named by Jeff Veis, at Sun Microsystems based in Menlo Park, California. The initiative's goal, which was personally promoted by Scott McNealy of Sun, was to unify technology, commercial and government organizations to create a standard for federated, identity-based Internet applications as an alternative to technology appearing in the marketplace controlled by a single entity such as Microsoft's Passport. Another Microsoft initiative, HailStorm, was renamed ...