The hospitalized patient's rights and their knowledge
Keywords:
Knowledge, Hospitalized Patient's Rights, DiseaseAbstract
Introduction: the American Association of Hospitals approved consequently from 1973 a letter that contains the rights of the patients.
Objective: the objective of this investigation was to identify of knowledge that you/they have 100 hospitalized patients by means of application of a survey of 21 questions focused before to the rights mentioned whose statistical analysis was descriptive.
Results: 32% patients know their rights as hospitalized patients, 68% doesn’t know them, however, they manifested that seven of the 12 these are applied by the personnel.
Conclusions: although most of the patients ignore their rights, they mentioned to receive opportune medical attention, the doctor maintains them informed regarding the illness that they suffer and they are assisted with consideration and respect on the part of the personnel of health.
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