TY - JOUR
T1 - Practicing patients’ rights in Iran
T2 - a review of evidence
AU - Sharifi, Tahere
AU - Shamsi Gooshki, Ehsan
AU - Mosadeghrad, Ali Mohammad
AU - Jaafaripooyan, Ebrahim
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript is part of the Ph.D dissertation (IR.TUMS.SPH.REC.1398.190) in the Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. The authors are grateful to the reviewers of the manuscript for their useful comments in improving the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Protection of patients' rights is critical in improving healthcare quality, and hence this study aimed at reviewing patient rights’ practices in healthcare organizations of Iran. Using systematic search, this review was conducted based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). Several keywords, including "patient rights", "patient bills of rights" and "patients rights’ charter" were searched bilingually in the databases of SID, Magiran, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science from 2010 to 2021, and then, following a three-tier screening using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) checklists, 76 articles were extracted. The degree of compliance with the Patients' Rights Charter (PRC) in healthcare organizations was 60.88% on average. As to the observance of the PRC dimensions, respectively, the highest and lowest scores were related to the "right to privacy and confidentiality" (70.16%) and "right to access an efficient complaining system" (53.01 %). Respect for patients' rights in organizations was assessed at a moderate level, and some aspects of patients' rights should be ndHistoattended to immediately. Therefore, discrepancies in the dimensions of patients' rights and their implementation by organizations should be on the agenda of healthcare managers and policymakers.
AB - Protection of patients' rights is critical in improving healthcare quality, and hence this study aimed at reviewing patient rights’ practices in healthcare organizations of Iran. Using systematic search, this review was conducted based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). Several keywords, including "patient rights", "patient bills of rights" and "patients rights’ charter" were searched bilingually in the databases of SID, Magiran, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science from 2010 to 2021, and then, following a three-tier screening using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) checklists, 76 articles were extracted. The degree of compliance with the Patients' Rights Charter (PRC) in healthcare organizations was 60.88% on average. As to the observance of the PRC dimensions, respectively, the highest and lowest scores were related to the "right to privacy and confidentiality" (70.16%) and "right to access an efficient complaining system" (53.01 %). Respect for patients' rights in organizations was assessed at a moderate level, and some aspects of patients' rights should be ndHistoattended to immediately. Therefore, discrepancies in the dimensions of patients' rights and their implementation by organizations should be on the agenda of healthcare managers and policymakers.
KW - Biomedical ethics
KW - Ethics
KW - Iran
KW - Patient rights
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85127893735
U2 - 10.18502/jmehm.v14i28.8284
DO - 10.18502/jmehm.v14i28.8284
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:85127893735
SN - 2008-0387
VL - 14
JO - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
JF - Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
M1 - 28
ER -