Patient rights and law: Tobacco smoking in psychiatric wards and the Israeli prevention of smoking act

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 472-478

  Kagan, Ilya ^a,b   Kigli Shemesh, Ronit ^b   Tabak, Nili ^b   Abramowitz, Moshe Z ^c   Margolin, Jacob ^c  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Jerusalem Mental Health Center Ezrath Nashim   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ethics; Patients; Prevention; Psychiatric wards; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFLICT; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LAW; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; MENTAL PATIENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHT; POLICY; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; SMOKING;

LEGAL APPROACH; MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEGISLATION, HOSPITAL; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT RIGHTS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SMOKING;

EID: 4944244951     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: 14770989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/096973304ne725oa     Document Type: Review

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