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Patient advocacy--an essential part of quality nursing care. 1996

K Segesten, and A Fagring

Vanersborg College of Health and Caring Sciences, Department of Advanced Nursing Education, Göteborg University, Sweden.

In Sweden, patient advocacy has been the domain of "patient ombudsmen" employed exclusively for handling patient complaints. We were the first nurse researchers in Sweden to address the issue of patient advocacy as a part of nursing practice in three different research projects, based on narratives by nurses.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D009732	Nursing Care	Care given to patients by nursing service personnel.	Care, Nursing,Management, Nursing Care,Nursing Care Management
D010344	Patient Advocacy	Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process.	Patient Ombudsmen,Patient Representatives,Clinical Ombudsman,Patient Ombudsman,Advocacy, Patient,Ombudsman, Clinical,Ombudsman, Patient,Ombudsmen, Patient,Patient Representative,Representative, Patient,Representatives, Patient
D011787	Quality of Health Care	The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.	Pharmacy Audit,Quality of Care,Quality of Healthcare,Audit, Pharmacy,Care Quality,Health Care Quality,Healthcare Quality,Pharmacy Audits
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man