Assessment of patients’ awareness of their rights in teaching hospitals in Iran

Bazmi, Shabnam; Kiani, Mehrzad; Nazari, Seyed Saeed Hashemi; Kakavand, Mona; Mahmoodzade, Razieh

doi:10.1177/0025802415605536

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“…According to Bazmi et al [24], patients assigned the highest score to confidentiality of information with the doctors and the medical team. This can be due to the instruments used or the year of the study, because in Bazmi’s study, patient’s rights charter had 5 dimensions, but presently, there are13 dimensions.…”

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Relationship between’ patient’s rights charter’ and patients’ satisfaction in gynecological hospitals

Farzianpour

Foroushani

Sadeghi

et al. 2016

BMC Health Serv Res

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BackgroundPatient’s satisfaction with hospital services is one of the most important indicators of efficiency and quality of services of different hospital wards.MethodsThis cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was conducted in 2015. The study population included patients in gynecological hospitals of TUMS, and by using questionnaires; data were collected from 304 patients. Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 22.ResultsThe rights of patients were mainly observed through “quality of care” (Mean ± SD: 9.65 ± 2.62), “knowing the charges and the right to complain”; (Mean ± SD: 6.00 ± 2.5) “presence of an active system to handle complaints of patients in the hospital and explanation of the error that occurred during service provision to patients by the wrongdoer” is the lowest (7.5 ± 2.62). It was found that patients’ satisfaction is below the mean and its different aspects are higher than the mean level. However, the services of physicians and feeding recorded the highest and lowest satisfaction, respectively (19.4 ± 4.25, 20.77 ± 4.39). The mean score of satisfaction of patients admitted with nursing physical care was 24.5 ± 6.2.ConclusionOverall, patients’ satisfaction with hospital services was close to the mean. Deficiencies and grievances should be resolved with a correct measure.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12913-016-1679-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Relationship between’ patient’s rights charter’ and patients’ satisfaction in gynecological hospitals

Farzianpour

Foroushani

Sadeghi

et al. 2016

BMC Health Serv Res

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“…Although apparently an important subject to Iranian medical professionals, only a limited number of noncomprehensive studies have been conducted on medical professionalism in Iran. [14] Evidence suggests that the subject of professionalism is not taught or assessed as part of medical students’ curricula, especially in the case of general medicine and residency programs. Assessing the knowledge of medical professionalism in medical students and physicians helps identify the weaknesses of professionalism training and devise plans for future training on the subject.…”

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Knowledge of medical professionalism in medical students and physicians at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and affiliated hospitals—Iran

Seif-Farshad¹,

Bazmi²,

Amiri

et al. 2016

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Although medical professionalism is a fundamental aspect of competence in medicine and a distinct facet of physicians’ competence, evidence suggests that the subject of professionalism is not taught or assessed as part of medical students’ curricula in Iran and many other countries. Assessing the knowledge of medical students and physicians about medical professionalism seems to be helpful in identifying the weaknesses of training in the field of professionalism and devise plans for future training on the subject.The present cross-sectional, quantitative, observational, and prevalence study recruited 149 medical interns, clinical residents, physicians, and professors working in hospitals selected through stratified random sampling using a questionnaire designed by the researchers and confirmed for its validity and reliability. The results were analyzed by Stata at a significance level of 0.05.Out of 149 cases, 61.64% were male with the mean age of 30.81 years. A total of 66 participants (44.29%) (95% confidence interval [CI]: 36.44%–52.44%) had heard and 83 (55.70%) (95% CI: 47.55%–63.55%) had not heard the term “medical professionalism” before the study. After adjusting for potential confounders, age and degree did not have statistically significant difference in assessed knowledge of medical professionalism, but sex had (mean difference: 5.88, P = 0.045), and the mean of the female was significantly higher than that of the male participants. The mean percentage of correct answers was 47.67.The present study demonstrated that the medical professionals working in the national healthcare system have an unfavorable theoretical knowledge about medical professionalism in Iran; although this does not indicate that their practices are unethical, it should be noted that one of the prerequisites of possessing a high level of medical professionalism and for establishing a proper relationship between the medical community and the patients is to have a proper knowledge of this concept. Improving behaviors and performances in medical professions requires adequate training on the concepts of medical professionalism and consequently the assessment of the levels of professionalism achieved in medical professionals.

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“…However, research performed by Bazmi et al in 2015 on the patients' awareness of their rights reported that the level of awareness was 80%. 11 The results of the current study demonstrated that education level has a significant impact on the level of awareness of patient's rights. Most of the contributors who held university degrees believed that they have the right to access their medical records; meanwhile, most of the patients with low education levels believed they had no such right.…”

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The effect of social determinants on oral health knowledge and patient’s bill of rights

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The highest number of the patients (31.9%) were 25-34 years old; 62.2% of the participantswere female and 37.8% were male. Regarding religion, on a 1-10 scale, the majority of the respondents(26.6%) had scored themselves 8. As for oral health knowledge, 84.8% believed that reducing sugar consumptionprevents tooth decay and 96.9% declared that stopping smoking is effective in reducing oral diseases.Regarding patients' awareness of the right to access their medical records, only 40% stated that theyhave such right and 34.2% declared "I don't know", while 25.8% believed they have no right to access theirmedical records.

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Assessment of patients’ awareness of their rights in teaching hospitals in Iran

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Relationship between’ patient’s rights charter’ and patients’ satisfaction in gynecological hospitals

Relationship between’ patient’s rights charter’ and patients’ satisfaction in gynecological hospitals

Knowledge of medical professionalism in medical students and physicians at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and affiliated hospitals—Iran

The effect of social determinants on oral health knowledge and patient’s bill of rights

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