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Patients are treated with respect, consideration and dignity.
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Patients have a right to competent, humane treatment with appropriate respect for their opinions and beliefs in the process of receiving care.
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Patients are provided appropriate privacy, including protection from access to their confidential information by faculty, staff or others who are not responsible for their direct health care.
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Patient disclosures and records are treated confidentially.
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Patients have the authority to approve or refuse their release in compliance with applicable state and federal laws. Except as required by law, medical records will not be released without the patient's signed permission.
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Patients have the right to know when their care would include experimental research and to refuse participation.
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Patients have the right to know the identity and professional title of those providing their care.
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Patients have the right to select the clinician of their choice and to change primary or specialty health care providers when other qualified health care providers are available. |
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Patients are provided to the degree known, with information concerning their diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. When concern for a patient's health makes it inadvisable to give such information, it is provided to a person delegated by the patient.
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Patients are given the opportunity to participate in decisions regarding their health care whenever possible.
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Patients have the right to be given a comprehensive explanation of the need for, and alternatives to, being referred or transferred to another health care facility if it is medically appropriate.
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Patients have the right to refuse treatment to the extent permitted by law and to be informed of the potential consequences of such actions.
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Patients have the right to receive an explanation of any charges incurred at University Health Services.
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