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A system of concepts for the continuity of care
  • Health and health state
  • Actors, roles and participants
  • Care activities
  • Care processes
  • Time, events and periods
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  • Responsibilities and mandates
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  2. Responsibilities and mandates

    Mandates and remits enabling people and organisations to participate in care

  3. authorization by law

    provision in legislation that in certain circumstances may overrule the need for informed consent

  • Responsibilities and mandates

    Mandates and remits enabling people and organisations to participate in care

    • care mandate

      mandate based on a commitment and either an informed consent or an authorization by law defining the rights and obligations of one care actor with regard to their involvement in care processes performed for a specific subject of care

    • care commitment

      acceptance of a care request including commitment by the care actor to perform requested care activities

    • informed consent

      permission to perform care activities, voluntarily given by a subject of care with consent competence or by a subject of care proxy with consent competence after having been informed about the purpose and the possible results of the care activities

    • objection

      subject of care desire that specific care activities are not performed

    • consent competence

      capability of the subject of care and/or the subject of care proxy to give or withhold informed consent

    • authorization by law

      provision in legislation that in certain circumstances may overrule the need for informed consent

    • subject of care desire

      desire expressed by the subject of care or the subject of care proxy regarding the performance of certain care activities

    • care activity mandate

      care mandate assigning the right and obligation to perform specific care activities

    • clinical care activity mandate

      care mandate to provide needed care activities concerned with the physical or mental health of a subject of care

    • social care activity mandate

      care mandate to provide needed care activities concerned with the social environment of a subject of care

    • proxy mandate

      care mandate to take decisions on behalf of a subject of care

    • care period mandate

      care mandate commissioning a mandated period of care

    • request mandate

      care mandate implying the right and obligation to request care activities

    • continuity facilitator mandate

      care mandate assigning the right and obligation to monitor and coordinate the delivery of care to one subject of care including the right to retrieve relevant information and obligation to document all activities based on this mandate

    • mandate to export personal information

      care mandate implying the right to communicate health record extracts

authorization by law

provision in legislation that in certain circumstances may overrule the need for informed consent

Note 1 to entry: A care mandate requires either informed consent or authorization by law