Health management and patients who lack capacity: Forms of guardianship in European health policy

Alessandro Bonsignore, Anna Smith, Francesco De Stefano and Andrea Molinelli

Health Policy, 2014, vol. 114, issue 2, 246-253

Abstract: The focus of healthcare debate has in recent years shifted from doctors and healthcare professionals in general to patients and the principle of patient self-determination. Patient competence therefore plays an increasingly central role in the legal framework of many Europeans countries.

Keywords: Self-determination; Patient competence; Health policy; Legal guardian; Health safeguarding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.07.017

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