SUMMARY
Management of Public Health
KNOWLEDGE OF MEDICAL STAFF ABOUT PATIENTS’ RIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIES TO ASSURE THEM IN THE HOSPITAL
Greta Girštautaitė
Supervisor Danutė Dučinskienė, Dr., Department of Social medicine,
Faculty of Public Health, Kaunas University of Medicine. – Kaunas, 2005. – P.61
Aim of the study was to evaluate knowledge of medical staff about patients’ rights and possibilities to assure them in Kaunas 2nd clinical hospital. Health care professionals’ view about confidentiality of patient’s information, knowledge about patient’s right to select physician, nursing specialist and health care institution, the right of complaint, the right to information, possibilities to assure patients’ rights in the hospital were assessed. Methods. Anonymous surveys of 260 physicians and nurses were carried out (response rate 72 percent). Results. The results revealed that 80,8 percent of medical staff claimed that information about patient must be confidential. 91,6 percent of health care professionals thought that patient can select health care institution. 83,8 percent of medical staff thought that patient can select a physician and nursing specialist. 29,2 percent of the respondents indicated that the patient who is dissatisfied with medical care services can apply to director of health care institution. 18,6 percent of medical staff indicated that don’t know where the patient can make a complaint against health care institution’s activity if patient is dissatisfied... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_150056-87884 |
| Date | 08 June 2005 |
| Creators | Girštautaitė, Greta |
| Contributors | Raškevičienė, Rita, Gendvilis, Stasys, Petrauskienė, Jadvyga, Bagdonas, Eugenijus, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Starkuvienė, Skirmantė, Misevičienė, Irena, Bučiūnienė, Ilona, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050608_150056-87884 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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