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- This article includes "medical misuse", which has the same meaning but is more specifically related to harmful medical treatments than general treatment, and may include non-voting victims.
Patient abuse or ignore is an action or failure to act that causes unusual suffering, misery, or danger to the patient.
- Abuse includes physically attacking or sexually assaulting a patient. It also includes intentional cuts of necessary food, physical care, and medical attention.
- Ignore includes failure to meet the needs and care of the patient, or the cause of the injury to an unintentional patient, whether by acts or omissions.
Abuse and negligence of the patient may occur in settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and during home-based care.
Video Patient abuse
See also
Maps Patient abuse
References
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Further reading
Books
- Bostwick JS Patient Abuse and Ignoring Our Vulnerable Adults: America's Shame (2008)
- Caron NK Effects on the effectiveness of reporting of patient harassment on reporting "physical violence, ill-treatment, neglect" at a residential health care facility (1981)
- Close BA, Greenberg MS, Morgenstern BR Nursing Home Patient Abuse - Reality and Remedies (1981)
- Costa, MD Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy, and Medical Misuse of Women (2007)
- Mackay T Without Due Care - Australian Hospital Tragedy (2010)
- Shannon JM The law of patient abuse: reality (1983)
- Sundram CJ Abuse and abuse of patients at the psychiatric center: policies to report crimes and clear responses by law enforcement agencies (1985)
- Thomas G Journey to madness: the true story of CIA mind control secrets and medical abuse (1989)
Academic articles
- Armstrong B Harassment Questions: Where Staff and Pollution Rights Collide - Hosp Community Psychiatry 1979 May; 30 (5): 348-51.
- Burkin K, Kleiner BH (1998) "Protecting whistleblower: preventing retaliation after reports of abuse of patients in health care institutions", Health Manpower Management, Vol.24 Issue 3 Page 119-124
- Gutheil TG Patient Abuse - Hosp Community Psychiatry 35: 832, August 1984
- Isaacman SH Patient Abuse in Mid-West Rural Pregnant Women? - Family Medical Archives, 1993; 2 (4): 351.
- LaRocco SA Patient Harassment Should Be Your Attention - Journal of Nursing Administration April 1985 - Volume 15 Issue 4 Page 27-31
- LaRocco SA Case of patient harassment - American Journal of Nursing: November 1985 - Volume 85 Issue 11 Page 1233-1236
- Santistevan A, Deiker T Asks Patients About the Abuse and Abandonment Plan-Five-Point, Las Vegas Medical Center (NM) 1988
- Sundram CJ Barriers to Reduce Patient Abuse in Public Institutions Hosp Community Psychiatry 35: 238-243, March 1984
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External links
- First Patient
- California Patient Abuse and Neglect Reporting Requirements Summary
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