Patients' rights--Veterans Administration. Final rule.
The Veterans Administration (VA) has amended its "Medical Series" of regulations concerning the "Protection of Patient Rights" to set forth, in part, specific minimum substantive and procedural rights to be uniformly afforded both involuntary and voluntary patients undergoing treatment in a VA medical center. Included are regulations which define and protect patients' rights in the areas of privacy, least restrictive treatment, exercise of legal rights, visitation, communication, restraint, seclusion, medication, dress, fund handling, general medical and psychiatric treatment, social interactions, exercise, and religion.
D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs