Patient charters all buzz and no bite, advocates say.

摘要

Patient groups are skeptical that a national charter of patient rights would reap real-world changes in Canada's health care system.The Canadian Medical Association's recent proposal that a national patient charter be established in Canada follows on the heels of two decades of efforts to legislate patient rights at the provincial level, a hit-and-miss experience that's left patient groups question-ing the necessity of such a document.