Disease relevance of Patient Rights

• Meclofenamate and the nephrotic syndrome: the use of the right drug in the right patient by the right physician [1].
• Therefore in the absence of symptoms and signs of malabsorption dentists could easily select the right patients possibly suffering from CD for gastroenterologic consultations [2].
• Six weeks after alendronate therapy began, scleritis developed in the patient's right eye [3].
• Although the patient's right knee symptoms and positive Lyme serology were consistent with a diagnosis of Lyme arthritis, the presence of sensorineural hearing loss and interstitial keratitis with inflammatory arthritis suggested a diagnosis of Cogan's syndrome [4].

Psychiatry related information on Patient Rights

• In the Cruzan case, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged the patient's right to refuse treatment but limited the decision-making involvement of the family when the patient's wishes are unknown [5].
• The patient's right to treatment is a clear mandate from the Supreme Court that the providers of mental health care must provide treatment [6].

High impact information on Patient Rights

• Approximately 20 seconds after adenosine infusion into a vein in the patient's right arm, a 2.2-second pause developed, followed by ventricular flutter and then fibrillation [7].
• American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatric Practice Action Group and Task Force on Medical Informatics. Privacy protection and health information: patient rights and pediatrician responsibilities [8].
• The Medical Event Reporting System for Transfusion Medicine: will it help get the right blood to the right patient [9]?
• METHODS: Each patient's right and left hands were randomized to receive either a 3-week course of topical 5-FU applied twice per day or PDT using topical 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) and then, after 4 hours, irradiation with an incoherent light source consisting of a 1200 W metal halogen lamp emitting red light (580 to 740 nm) [10].
• RESULTS: Of the respondents 84% supported a family's right to withdraw life support from a patient in a persistent coma, and 90% supported a mentally competent patient's right to request that life support be withdrawn [11].

Biological context of Patient Rights

• RESULTS: After discontinuing latanoprost and starting corticosteroids and ketorolac, visual acuity improved from counting fingers to 20/60 in one patient's left eye and from 20/100 to 20/25 in the other patient's right eye [12].
• The patient's right ventricular pressure was 150/23 mmHg, cardiac index (CI) 1.0 L/min per m2, and she showed signs and symptoms of severe primary pulmonary hypertension [13].

Associations of Patient Rights with chemical compounds

• Suxamethonium was administered after an arterial tourniquet had been applied to the patient's right leg [14].
• Simple hints are given how to best use tramadol by selecting the right patients and choosing the right dosing strategy [15].
• A nurse erroneously administered 2 mg of epinephrine 1:1000 (1 mg/ml) into a peripheral intravenous line in the patient's right leg [16].
• As only a fraction of patients seems to benefit from imatinib mesylate therapy and due to potential side effects and high costs of imatinib mesylate therapy, selection of the right patients is important [17].
• INTERVENTION: Immediate cessation of all heparin use and amputation of the patient's right arm [18].

Gene context of Patient Rights

• RESULTS: The shorter/longer CMCT between the patients' right and left ADM and AH were 8.5+/-2.9/11.5+/-3.3 and 16.2+/-3.1/18.4+/-3.3 ms, respectively (mean+/-SD) [19].
• The data suggest that in cardiac transplant patients right atrial pressure does not have a primary role in releasing ANP [20].
• The core of this CMS is the electronic health record (EHR), which aims to assure both the patients' right to know, and the attendants' accountability [21].
• On the Halstead-Reitan Finger Tapping Test, over 60% of the AD patients exhibited notable departures from expected finger tapping asymmetry; 26% displayed an exaggerated right hand tapping advantage (ASYM RIGHT patients) and 37% showed a reversal of expected asymmetry (left hand speed equal to or greater than right hand speed, ASYM LEFT patients) [22].
• Current trends in the NHS promote patient rights including the right to accept or refuse surgery [23].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Patient Rights

• The surgeon operates from the patient's right side using two midline trocar sites as the main operating ports [24].

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