Although the health care in the Czech Republic is widely available and it is provided often on a high level, there is still a problem in medical facilities to keep a dignity of hospitalized people or their relatives. Particularly patients´ personal rights are often violated. Also, psychological dimensions of a treatment are often underestimated, which is most evident at the most vulnerable groups of hospitalized patients, such as minors, women in labour or dying people. If doctors violate their duties, only a small number of patients are seeking a justice in the court, either from a fear from financial costs of the litigation or a public stigmatization. At present, there might be a turning point in this situation. As of 1st April 2012 Act No. 372/2011 Coll., on the provision of health services, was adopted, that highly emphasises the patients´ right. The aim of the thesis was to summarize a current legislation to the given issue, to map knowledge of patients´ rights in the general public and to find out whether the rights are respected by the medical staff. The chosen method was a method of the quantitative research, a technique of a questionnaire survey. There was designed a questionnaire that ascertained a public awareness of patients´ rights, a process of instructions for patients and a provision of an agreement with the provided care. Respondents were inhabitants of the South Bohemian region older than 18 years. The research shows that respondents know their rights related to the provision of the health care especially in relation to the informed consent. However they consider the medical staff´s instructions to be insufficient. The research results proved that it is still necessary to put an emphasis on the education of the medical staff in the area of instructions for the patients on their health conditions and the care provided, on requirements of the informed consent, the way how to give instructions etc. It is necessary to encourage patients not to be afraid to say their doctor that they do not understand his/her way of the instructions on the intervention, to find a common consensus between patients´ and medical professionals´ demands.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:137737 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | KOLÍNOVÁ, Eliška |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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