title: Home care and a bill of rights: past experience, potential implications.
abstract: Patient rights legislation is not entirely new. In 1987 Congress passed laws regarding patient rights. At that point, the home care industry experienced some valuable lessons that Congress, government, consumers, and agencies should all consider with future bill of rights.
authors.affiliation: National Association for Home Care, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Irwin
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D018907:Privacy; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States