Patient advocacy

Advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers Part of a series on PatientsPatients Concepts Doctor-patient relationship Medical ethics Patient participation Patient-reported outcome Patient safety Consent Informed consent Adherence Informal coercion Motivational interviewing Involuntary treatment Rights Patients' rights Pregnant patients' rights Disability rights movement Patient's Charter Medical law Approaches Patient advocacy Patient-centered care Patient and public involvement Harm Adverse effect Medical error Patient abuse Elder abuse Medical sociology Sick role vte Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate may be an individual or an organization, concerned with healthcare standards or with one specific group of disorders. The terms patient advocate and patient advocacy can refer both to individual advocates providing services that organizations also provide, and to organizations whose functions extend to individual patients. Some patient advocates are independent (with no conflict-of-loyalty issues) and some work for the organizations that are directly responsible for the patient's car