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2. Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act

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   The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 is a United States federal statute enacted by the 114th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 19, 2016. It modified the Controlled Substances Act, which requires the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to identify "imminent danger to ...

3. What Is a Health Care Agent? - WebMD

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   Look for someone you can talk to about hard decisions and who will support your choices. Your agent may have to ask doctors a lot of questions and push hard for what you want. Try to pick someone ...

4. Self-Advocacy: Know Your Rights as a Patient - WebMD

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   One thing that makes being a self-advocate a little bit easier is the fact that you as a patient have very specific rights. Some of these rights are guaranteed by federal law. For example, you ...

5. Patient advocacy - Wikipedia

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   Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate [1] may be an individual or an organization, concerned with healthcare standards or with one specific group of disorders. The terms patient advocate and patient advocacy can refer both to individual advocates ...

6. What to Know About Patient Portals - WebMD

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   A patient portal is a secure website set up by a health care system, hospital, or clinic. The tools (or features) vary, depending on the portal. Patient portals can help you access medical records ...

7. Patient participation - Wikipedia

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   Patient participation is a trend that arose in answer to medical paternalism. Informed consent is a process where patients make decisions informed by the advice of medical professionals. In recent years, the term patient participation has been used in many different contexts. These include, for example: shared decision-making, participatory ...