Do Spaniards know their rights as patients?

Do Spaniards know their rights as patients?

BACKGROUND In 2002, Spain introduced new legislation regulating the rights of patients. Spaniards have thus seen an increase in their capacity for decision-making, bringing them into line with many other countries. However, the law changes do not mean to be acquainted with the new legislation and therefore, putting it into practice. OBJECTIVE To analyse whether the rules governing patients' r...

Superior Capsule Reconstruction: What Do We Know?

The management of irreparable rotator cuff tears remains challenging. Since its introduction by Mihata in 2012, superiorcapsule reconstruction (SCR) has grown in popularity at an astonishingly rapid rate. The aim of this article is to providea comprehensive review of the available literature, in order to highlight what has so far been published on SCR,covering all aspects including biomechanica...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

What do patients with cerebral aneurysms know about their condition?

OBJECTIVE During diagnosis and treatment, patients with cerebral aneurysms receive complex medical information. To study what patients know about their condition, we compared patients' knowledge about their aneurysm-related medical history with information in the medical record. METHODS Neurosurgery clinic outpatients with cerebral aneurysms were interviewed about their history of subarachnoi...

Margaret McCartney: Do patients know that their records aren’t private?

Confidentiality is core. We teach students not to gossip. Notes are password protected. Doctors are struck off if they reveal private facts about patients in public. And patients need this safety so that they can talk without fear: without an expectation of confidentiality doctors would know even less about patients’ problems. But privacy is eroding. Doctors have long been expected to breach co...