Applying the welfare model to at-own-risk discharges

“At-own-risk discharges” or “self-discharges” evidences an irretrievable breakdown in the patient–clinician relationship when patients leave care facilities before completion of medical treatment and against medical advice. Dissolution of the therapeutic relationship terminates the physician’s duty...

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Authors: Krishna, Lalit Kumar Radha (Author) ; Menon, Sumytra (Author) ; Kanesvaran, Ravindran (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2017
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 24, Issue: 5, Pages: 525-537
Further subjects:B welfare model
B end of life
B Singapore
B leaves against medical advice
B self-discharge
B Palliative Care
B “discharges against medical advice”
B “At-own-risk discharges”
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