Patıents' rıghts

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Patıents' rıghts

Release Date: 26 06 2020

Patients' rights vary in different countries and in different jurisdictions, often depending upon prevailing cultural and social norms. Patient rights are a subset of human rights. Whereas the concept of human rights refers to minimum standards for the ways persons can expect to be treated by others, the concept ofethics refers to customary standards for the ways persons should treat others. As such, rights and ethics are usually flip sides of the same coin, and behind every ‘patient right’ is one or more ethical principle from which that right is derived. What are the patients’ rights?
• Use of the service
• Informing and requesting information
• Choosing and changing healthcare staff and institution
• Privacy
• Consent
• Getting health care in a safe environment
• Respect and comfort
• Having visitors and companion
• Complaint and right to sue