title: Best hospitals 1997. Taking charge. Slowly, patients have the won the right to dictate terms--to refuse treatment, to be pain free. Hospitals are still digesting what this means.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brink
mesh_terms: D017041:Ethics Committees; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006761:Hospitals / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008020:Life Support Care / Q000592:standards; D018447:Medical Futility; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010358:Patient Participation; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000145:classification*; D012297:Right to Die; D014481:United States