Managed care and patients' rights.

نگاهی چند سویه به پدیده حقوق بیمار: تجربیات زیسته بیمار و همراه، پزشک و پرستار

  Background and Aim : Patients are among the most vulnerable social groups whose particular situation makes their rights more sensitive in health care system. They relegate themselves totally to the health care system and trust to the health professionals. In such a context, it seems necessary to provide tools and strategies for assuring patients rights advocacy. To designe and establish these...

Observing Patients’ Rights and the Facilitating and Deterrent Organizational Factors From the Viewpoint of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units

Background: The rights of patients admitted to the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are threatened more than the ones admitted to other hospital wards due to the nature of ICU and special health conditions of the patients admitted such as lower consciousness and their need for invasive and noninvasive care practices. Awareness of obstacles and observance of patients’ rights are of particular i...

Barriers in the Performance of Patient's Rights in Iran and Appropriate Offered Solutions Review Article

Abstract Introduction: The goal of patient's rights is to ensure provision of adequate care to patients which in turn enhance the quality of medical care. Objective: The aim of this review article is to evaluate the existing barriers to implementation of patient's rights in Iran and presenting appropriate solutions. Methods: First, all studies related to patient 's bill of rights were ...

Awareness of Nurses about Patients’ Rights and the Extent They Respect It

  Background and Objectives: Patients’ rights are the patients’ expectations from health services. Patients’ rights declaration is to protect individuals’ rights in order to be ensured, in case of being sick they will receive enough qualified care in a respectful context regardless of their age, gender, and economic situation. The purpose of this study was to determ...

The Patients' Bill of Rights: managed care under siege.

منشور حقوق بیماران و راه‌کارهای ارتقای آن در ایران

Considering patients’ rights has a long history in medicine. Continues attention to this phenomenon has risen in medical sciences literature particularly during the last few decades and has caused many discussions in health care delivery systems. Despite Iranian Muslim culture’s fullness of humanistic lessons and the challenges by the government, the concept of patients’ right...