Identifier: TDX:488
Authors:
Guix Oliver, Joan
Abstract:
The fact that in the relation doctor-patient, the doctor has all the information, tolerates the existence of a information asymmetry. An agency relation settles down that, actually, implies a relation of being able of the doctor towards the patient. This has tolerated the appearance of a movement in please the Rights of the Patients that, in the Spanish State was gathered by the General Law of Health of 1986. Our objective is to know the attitudes and perceptions the professionals and the users of the hospitals of the Sector of Reus (Catalonia), during the first semester of 1999, respect to the rights and duties of the patient. We analyzed, by means of focal groups of doctors, nurses, and patients, their attitudes and perceptions on the rights of the patients. From the results, we elaborated three structured surveys Likert directed to doctors, nurses and patients, that are validated and applied, by route telephone to expacientes (n=403), and by selfresponse to doctors (n=55) and nurses (n=93). We used the analysis of frequency allocation, standard error, and the test of χ2. To simplify the obtained data we have used the Analysis of Categorical Main Components. Our patients want to be informed (96,5%). They affirm that the doctor is the person more adapted to make decisions (81,2%) and see the consent informed like an exculpatory procedure (67,2%). They would want to preserve the confidentiality of its documentation towards the hospitable personnel who does not take part in its process (61,1%). They have felt correctly informed on what they were going to them to do and they say that they have understood this information (91,2%). The confidence in the doctor is considered important (72,9%), but not as much as to replace the information (71,4%). 5,6% thought that it d
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