Editing Patients' rights (section)

{{Short description|Set of principles to protect the interest of those receiving medical care}}
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{{Rights}}
'''Patient rights''' consist of enforceable duties that [[healthcare professionals]] and healthcare business persons owe to [[Patient|patients]] to provide them with certain services or benefits.<ref>{{Citation |last=Olejarczyk |first=Jacob |title=Patient Rights and Ethics |date=2023 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK538279/ |work=StatPearls |access-date=2023-11-24 |place=Treasure Island (FL) |publisher=StatPearls Publishing |pmid= 30855863 |last2=Young |first2=Michael}}</ref> When such services or benefits become [[rights]] instead of simply privileges, then a patient can expect to receive them and can expect the support of people who enforce organization policies or legal codes to intervene on the patient's behalf if the patient does not receive them. A '''patient's bill of rights''' is a list of guarantees for those receiving [[medical care]]. It may take the form of a [[law]] or a non-binding declaration. Typically a patient's [[bill of rights]] guarantees patients information, fair treatment, and [[autonomy]] over medical decisions, among other rights.