part 111: International patient charters are often nonbinding or feature fuzzy metrics -- Canadian Medical Association Journal (patient charter of rights)

Last of a three-part series on patient charters


Part I: Patients charters: the provincial experience (www.cmaj.ca/cgi/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3339)


Part II: Patient charters all buzz and no bite, advocates say (www.cmaj.ca/cgi/doi/10.1503/cmaj.109-3340)

CMAJ - Loaded expectations - author Wayne Kondro, CMAJ

"Two of the past three (CMAJ) presidents have lined up squarely in the camp favoring increased privatization of health care, while the third was believed to be very sympathetic to that cause."

International patient charters are often nonbinding or feature fuzzy metrics Part 3 of 3

CMAJ - Patient charters: the provincial experience (1st part of 3) CMAJ

CMAJ Editor’s note: 
First in a series on patient charters
Tomorrow: Patients advocates say charters are an unnecessary distraction
Thursday: The international experience