Patient Rights: Patient rights are the basic rules of conduct between medical caregivers as well as the institutions and people that support them and patients. The key components are:
- communication;
- informed consent;
- confidentiality;
- the right to healthcare;
- abandonment;
- right to refuse care for adults parents, and children;
- legal principles in medicine; and
- medical research and patients' rights.
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