The Problems and Tendencies of Legal Regulation of Patients’ Rights and Duties in Lithuania
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.main##
Abstract
This article reviews the development of legal regulation of patients’ rights and duties since the reestablishment of independence of Lithuania. It analyzes the patient’s rights and duties in health care, health laws on the patients’ rights and duties, compares them with other legal institutes, evaluates concepts and court practice on this issue. Special attention is paid to the development of regulation of the patients‘ rights and duties. It is obvious that legal regulation is not perfect because the need to revise the Law on the Rights of Patients and Compensation of the Damage to their Health became apparent as early as 18 months after its adoption.
##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.details##
Section
Articles
This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This follows the BOAI definition of open access. Authors contributing to Jurisprudence agree to publish their articles under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public (CC BY) License (applicable from 2025).
Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to the Association for Learning Technology.
Please see Copyright and Licence Agreement for further details.
