Respecting Patients' Rights in Hospitals: Patients' and Health-care Workers' Perspectives

Overview

Journal J Med Ethics Hist Med

Publisher Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Specialty Medical Ethics

Date 2024 Jan 23

PMID 38260764

Authors

Soolmaz Moosavi

Maryam Sadaat Mousavi

Ayat Ahmadi

Amirhossein Mardani

Alireza Parsapoor

Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki

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Abstract

Considering the importance of respecting and observing patients' rights, this study aimed to assess the level of observance of hospitalized patients' rights from both patients' and health-care workers' (HCWs) perspectives. This cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study reports the responses of 486 patients and 887 HCWs in a public referral university hospital. The study illustrates that patients and HCWs think patients' rights are respected at a medium level; however, HCWs reported lower levels of respect for patients' rights than patients, and senior HCWs reported even lower levels than their younger colleagues. Older patients and those hospitalized in internal medicine wards reported lower respect for autonomy and responsiveness, and patients' companions reported lower levels of respect for patients' rights than the patients themselves.

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