2020
DOI: 10.1186/s13584-020-00405-1
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Promoting patients’ rights through hospital accreditation

Abstract: Background Over the past decade, hospitals in many countries, including Israel, have undergone an accreditation process aimed at improving the quality of services provided. This process also refers to the protection and promotion of patients’ rights. However, reviewing the criteria and content included in this category in the Israeli context reveals definitions and implications that differ from those presented by the law – specifically the Patient’s Rights Act 1995. Moreover, the rights included in it are not … Show more

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“…Rights of Service Recipients: One of the main categories in all accreditation programs is paying attention to patients' rights. Patients' rights are taken into account in accreditation; It may also provide effective tools for policymakers and patient support groups to inform physicians, patients, and their families about such rights and to promote and enforce them in the health care system (Sperling & Pikkel, 2020). Therefore, in the proposed framework, this category was divided into two subcategories: providing facilities for the service recipient and respecting the service recipient's rights, in which all patients' rights are considered.…”
Section: Technical Issues Of Accreditation Of Dental Clinicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rights of Service Recipients: One of the main categories in all accreditation programs is paying attention to patients' rights. Patients' rights are taken into account in accreditation; It may also provide effective tools for policymakers and patient support groups to inform physicians, patients, and their families about such rights and to promote and enforce them in the health care system (Sperling & Pikkel, 2020). Therefore, in the proposed framework, this category was divided into two subcategories: providing facilities for the service recipient and respecting the service recipient's rights, in which all patients' rights are considered.…”
Section: Technical Issues Of Accreditation Of Dental Clinicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their paper in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research [ 2 ], Sperling and Pikkel present an analysis that provides important contributions to the answer to this question. The authors have examined the scope, contents, and definitions of patients’ rights in the Joint Commission International (JCI) Standards and compared them to patients’ rights as they are addressed and protected in national Israeli legislation.…”
Section: Main Textmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Informed consent is essential for patient autonomy, which is the patients' right to decide what will happen to their body and is a basic principle of medical ethics [6]. In Israel, the principle of informed consent is anchored in the Patients' Rights Law enacted in 1996, which states that medical treatment shall not be administered to the patient unless he/she has given his/her consent after being provided with all the necessary information, including the risks of the procedure [7].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%