Article title The Essence of Medical Services in the System of Commercial Legislation
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Name of magazine Scientific-practical journal
«Medical Law» Ukrainian language
Issue 2/2013
Сторінки [88-101]
Annotation The issues of the definition of «medical service» formulation are investigated. The correlation between the notions «medical service» and «medical aid» are highlighted. It is suggested to distinguish medical services, which are aimed at providing health from those medical services, which are directed at serving consumers’ needs. A conclusion that medical aid is a complex of medical services or a separate medical service, which includes not only diagnostic and treatment measures on the grounds of medical prescriptions based on clinical protocols and standards but also placing the patients to medical facility of its structural division in order to provide medical and prophylactic services. The difference between medical services from other works in the sphere of health care, connected with their provision is described. Views of different scholars are elucidated in order to distinguish medical service from other works in the health care sphere. The author highlights a position that, in case there is no material result of certain activity or such result exists in immaterial form the relations are to be regulated by a service agreement.
Keywords medical service, medical aid, medical maintenance.
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