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Advance Directives
  • American Bar Association | Toolkit for Advance Health Care Planning
  • Living Wills Directory
  • Family Medical Doctor | Advance Directives + Living Wills
  • Ethics in Medicine | Advance Directives
    • [mental health]
  • Bazelon Center | Advance Psychiatric Directives

    •  Community Integration
     [case law]
    [institutional housing]
  • Olmstead Decision

    •  Confidentiality
  • John Grohol's Best Practices in Therapy
  • AMA's Patient Confidentiality | 1998
    • [legislation + regulations]
  • HIPAA
  • HIPAA Basics

    •  Ethics + Professional Conduct
  • AMA | Principles of Medical Ethics
  • Buddhism + Medical Ethics
  • Biotechnology + Medical Ethics
  • Baylor University | Center for Medical Ethics + Health Policy
  • Karolinska Institute | Links pertaining to Ethics

    •  Forced Treatment
  • Stanley Foundation's Treatment Advocacy Center
    • [legislation + regulations]
  • California | Assisted Outpatient Treatment
  • New York | Kendra's Law

    		•  Informed Consent
  • What is Informed Consent?
  • Informed Consent in Pediatrics
  • AMA | Position Paper on Informed Consent
    • [research implications]
  • Alliance for Human Research Protection
  • FDA | Guidance for Institutional Review Boards and Clinical Investigators
  • HHS | Standards for Informed Consent with Human Subjects | US
    • [model forms]
  • Pat Risser's Model Informed Consent Form

    •  Licensing of Professionals
  • John Grohol's Therapists + Social Workers

    •  Medical Records
  • USA/ CT | Access to Your Own Records
  • USA | HIPAA Basics
    • [access to records]
  • Australia | How to Make A Medical Records Request
  • Britain | Accessing Health Records
  • Ireland | Access to Records
  • Scotland | NHS Access to Records
  • Scotland | How to See Your Records
    • [workplace records]
  • Employee Medical Records
  • OSHA | Medical Access Orders | US
    • [opinion on access to records]
  • NAMI | Where We Stand on Access

    		•  Mental Health
     [agencies + organizations]
  • Center for Mental Health Services | US
  • Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners | UK
  • SAMSHA | US
    • [clients' rights groups]
  • Bazelon Center
  • Law Project for Psych Rights
  • Dendron/MindFreedom
    • [legislation + regulations]
  • Patients' Rights Law | US/CT
  • The Mental Health Act | UK
    • [self-help/recovery]
  • National Empowerment Center | US
  • Natn'l MH Self Help Clearinghouse | US
  • CMHS Recovery + Living Guide | US

    •  Oversight Reviewers
  • Center for Medicare + Medicaid Services | US
  • Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
  • National Health Service Information Authority | UK

    •  Patients' Rights ~ Medical

    		• Patients' Rights ~ Psychiatric
     [See: Mental Health]
    [news + information]
  • Kangaroo Court
  • Kangaroo Court's Archives
  • Mind Freedom News Directory
    • [ex-patients/survivors]
  • Lunatics' Liberation Front
  • MadNation
  • Mind Freedom's 1st Person Accounts
  • People Who...
  • Psychiatrized
  • Psych Survivor Archives [CA]

    •  Privacy Issues
  • AMBHA Clinically Appropriate Access to Medical Records
  • How Private are My Records?
  • EPIC's Medical Records + Privacy
  • Lawrence Berkley Library's Personal Privacy Notes
  • ACLU's FAQs on Government Access to Medical Records

    •  Restraint + Seclusion
  • Bazelon center | Safeguards in Use of Restraints
  • NAPHS | Guiding Prinicples on Restraint + Seclusion
  • NAMI | What to do in Restraint/Seclusion Abuse Cases
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