Showing 27 results for Patients
Aliasghar Ghods, Easa Mohammadi, Zohreh Vanaki, Anooshirvan Kazemnejad,
Volume 4, Issue 1 (12-2010)
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Although there is no more propensity for measuring patient's satisfaction as an important qualitative scale of health services, the thing which is slightly seems to be forgotten is the attention towards the concept and expansion of theory framework. The purpose of this study is to remark the meaning of satisfaction and to offer a qualitative definition for that. This research is a qualitative study and content analysis. During the study period fifteen patients who were hospitalized in Semnan hospitals (2009) were selected. The data were gathered by half-structured interview and analyzed. The results of this study shows four two major themes and four subthemes including feeling of satisfaction and the reception of nurses by patients. Accordingly, satisfaction is a calm sense that the patient feels it after the emotional and logical reception of nurses. The feeling will be sensed by intelligent and sometimes emotional feeling of patient towards the nurse in his/her care unit environment. The results of this study indicate the real and basic meaning of patient's satisfaction from nurses' views. This meaning is even beyond the imagination of experts and managers. These results can be put into work for designing suitable tools to measure the scale of patients' satisfaction of nurses based on their real perception.
Farhang Babamahmoodi, Meysam Meftahi, Mohammad Khademloo, Ali Hesamzadeh ,
Volume 4, Issue 4 (7-2011)
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A review of the history of the Patient’s Bill of Rights reveals the universal significance of this subject in health systems management. There is a long history of attempts to raise respect for patient’s rights and setting the legal frameworks associated with those rights in the health care of many countries. The present study aimed to evaluate observance of the Patient’s Bill of Rights according to patients in the teaching hospitals of the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in 2009 in all 4 teaching hospitals of the Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences on 200 patients who were either hospitalized or about to be discharged at the time. Data were collected through interviews, using a fifteen-item Likert type questionnaire based on the Patient’s Bill of Rights, and its validity and reliability had been confirmed. Data analysis was performed through ANOVAs and t-tests, using SPSS version 17 software.
The results showed that according to the population under study, the patients’ rights were respected in 14.59% of the cases based on the overall score of the Patient’s Bill of Rights. This figure was 16.63% for respect for patients, their privacy and, patient non-discrimination, 14.17% for patient information availability right, 14.15% for the right to make choices and decisions freely, and 13.20% regarding complaints. There was no meaningful relationship between patients’ views on observance of their rights and their sex (P = 0.106), education level (P = 0.723), marital status (P =0.260) and place of residence (P = 0.101).
Based on the findings of this study, observance of the Patient’s Bill of Rights was not satisfactory according to the population under study and from their viewpoint. It is therefore recommended that measures be taken to eliminate any obstacles preventing observance of patients’ rights and to improve the present conditions of hospitals in this respect.
Amir Ashkan Nasiripour, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Hasan Fazayeli Rad, Abbas Kamyabi,
Volume 4, Issue 6 (12-2011)
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Evaluation of the factors related to the patients&apos complaints against medical staff, especially doctors and efforts towards its reduction affects patients&apos satisfaction of health care system. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the factors related to the patient`s complaint against doctors with the verdict of Medical Council of Kerman.
This study was a descriptive, analytical and practical evaluation, assessing 250 documents related to the patients&apos complaints of doctors in Kerman Medical Council during 2004-2009.
The most reasons of complaints (%73.2) were carelessness and disrespecting scientific and legal standards, and obtaining funds out of legal standards (%9.3) respectively. In the case of issuing vote, the most opinions (%31.7) were innocence and suspended and barred from prosecuting (%22.9) respectively. Most complaints were of ophthalmologists and private hospitals. There were significant relationship between the reason of complaint and issued out (P<0.01, c2= 53.706) and the reason of complaints and field practitioners (P=0.026, c2= 49.27). No significant relationship between issued out and the type of hospital was found.
Regarding the results, respecting scientific, and legal standards, and decreasing financial relationships between doctors and patients is an effective way in reducing patients&apos complaints of physicians. Improvement in physicians&apos patients&apos relationship by explaining the disease condition, its risks and treatment options to patients are effective in reducing patient&aposs complaint against physicians.
Abd-Ol-Hassan Kazemi, Mostafa Kazemi, Mahmood Abbasi, Mehrzad Kiyani, Nejat Feyzollahi, Sadyar Ataloo, Mahmood Massodiniya,
Volume 5, Issue 2 (4-2012)
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End stage patient control and autonomy are core principles in human bio-medical ethics and key components of end-of-life (EOL) care. Albeit, according to modern medical ethics principles the centrality of the patient as decision maker may not be relevant to culturally diverse groups of end stage people. The purpose of this article is to present results of a literature review of end stage patient control and their family position within the context of end of life support. The review revealed that the interaction between medical control and ethical values in end of life support is multifaceted and unpredictable.
According to the recommendations of American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine End-of-Life Consensus Panel and some other world class medical and ethical societies, culturally effective end of life support includes the following essential elements
• acceptance of and respect for cultural differences among all end stage patients
• willingness to negotiate and compromise when world views differ
• understanding of one's own values and biases
• contact and communication skills that enhance empathy
• information of the cultural practices of patient groups should be seen on a regular basis and
• attention that all patients are individuals and may not share the same views as others within their own ethnic group
According to the above description, applicants identified five domains of quality end of life support:
1. receiving adequate pain control
2. avoiding inappropriate prolongation of the dying process
3. achieving a sense of control
4. relieving burden on loved ones and
5. strengthening relationships
We emphasize that, despite above mentioned points and advices maintaining a sense of control is an essential element in the end of life support for some individuals, further study of the interplay between ethnicity, desire for control, and achieving a good death is needed.
Mojgan Rahnama, Masood Fallahi Khoshknab, Sadat Seyed Bagher Madah, Fazollah Ahmadi,
Volume 5, Issue 3 (6-2012)
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Spiritual care includes assistance in performing religious rituals to support those seeking connection to the spiritual world. It forms an essential part of holistic care and helps finding answers to issues concerning life, pain, and death. This study was conducted to understand cancer patients' perception of spiritual care.A qualitative content analysis approach was applied to conduct the study. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with convenience sampling of 17 cancer patients and their family members in oncology wards of a hospital in Tehran and Behnam Daheshpor Charity Organization. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim. For data reduction, data were labeled and coded before content analysis.The following themes were identified: characteristics and duties of nurses with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains, care with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains (emotional, communicational, functional), barriers to spiritual care.According to our findings, nurses do not satisfy all spiritual needs of the participants, because the characteristics and practices of nurses do not meet the expectations of patients and their family members, and ward environment does not support such care.
Mohammadreza Lashkarizadeh, Farzaneh Jahanbakhsh, Mitra Samareh Fekri, Bahram Poorseyyedi, Mahmood Aghaeei Afshar, Mostafa Shokoohi,
Volume 5, Issue 4 (7-2012)
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Disclosing the diagnosis of cancer to a patient could impact various aspects of their life. The present study was performed to evaluate the views of cancer patients about disclosure of the diagnosis of disease to them. The present study was conducted on 385 cancer patients in three teaching hospitals (Afzalipour, Shafa, and Bahonar) affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences between 2010 and 2011. These patients were evaluated for their views on revealing the diagnosis to them using a questionnaire that included the type of cancer, demographic information and their preferred manner of being informed of the diagnosis. Out of 385 cancer patients, 155 patients (%40) were aware of the diagnosis of their disease. The majority of patients who were aware of their diagnosis (%89) said they would like to know the diagnosis before treatment. Almost all patients who knew the diagnosis preferred to be aware of the prognosis of the disease and the complications of treatment. The only significant demographic variable was sex men were more eager to know the diagnosis of the disease (P value< 0.05). This study showed that the majority of cancer patients would like to be aware of the diagnosis, even though most of them were unaware that they had cancer.
Hossein Atrak, Maryam Mollabakhshi,
Volume 5, Issue 4 (7-2012)
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Telling the truth to patients is a key issue in medical ethics. Today, most physicians hold that truth-telling to patients is crucial, and that lying to patients or withholding information from them is not acceptable. It seems, however, that absolute and unconditional truth-telling is not always possible, and it may not be feasible to tell some patients certain truths under some circumstances. Although truth-telling is a rudimentary principle in ethics, it is allowed to withhold truth or even to tell lies in some circumstances. From the point of view of reason and tradition, lying under certain circumstances is allowed for instance when one is disinclined to tell the truth, or in emergencies where truth-telling might lead to loss of life, property or someone's reputation, and when truth may involve two adequately unpleasant situations. In my opinion, it is necessary to tell the truth, regardless of possible harms, when continuation of treatment, or the patient's cooperation and consent depend on it, and also when the truth which needs to be told to a patient is the incurability of his disease and therefore his inevitable death,. In other cases, however, when there are truths such as severity of disease, death of others in the accident, family problems outside the hospital, predicted survival time, and other possible diagnoses, the truth can be withheld and the patient can even be lied to if there is any risk of harm to the patient.
Mansureh Madani, Ensieh Madani,
Volume 6, Issue 5 (12-2013)
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Patient's refusal of treatment is the rational consequence of informed consent and is considered among the patient's rights but can lead to patient harm or harm to others, or damage to the health care system. Major ethical challenges in the field of treatment refusal arise from capacitated patients. This paper mainly examines theoretical issues related to this group by reviewing books on jurisprudence, philosophy and bioethics, especially textbooks that include moral philosophers' perspectives, the views of experts in bioethics and jurisprudential considerations related to this issue. These views sometimes are very different or in conflict with each other. Based on different schools of philosophy or ethics, our encounters with patients who refuse treatment can range from abandoning patients on the one hand to treating them at any cost, even by coercion or deception on the other hand.
According to Islamic perspectives, people have no right to harm themselves, but because of the authority that each person has on his or her body, this does not mean that compulsory treatment is permitted it means that caregivers must try to persuade patients to accept treatment, and must not cooperate with them to harm themselves and to discontinue treatment specifically.
Mohammad Jalali, Ahmad Nasiri, Heidarali Abedi,
Volume 7, Issue 5 (1-2015)
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Breaking bad news to patients and their families is an important issue in health care services. Since access to information is among the basic rights of the patient, investigating the experiences of patients and their families after receiving bad news can make the process more purposeful and prevent unnecessary suffering. This study aimed to describe the experiences of patients and their families after hearing bad news from health providers.The present study was conducted with a qualitative, phenomenological approach. Participants were selected through purposive sampling from people who had the experience of receiving bad news during 2013 in Birjand, Iran. The sampling process continued up to the point of data saturation, which reduced the number of participants to 10. Note-taking was used to complete the data collection process. In this study Colaizzi's method was used for data analysis, while robustness of the study was assessed based on the criteria of precision.The subjects were between 25 and 70 years of age. First, according to Colaizzi's Method, 280 codes were obtained which were the same as the developed concepts. At this point, the code lists were extracted. Different thematic categories with similar meanings were placed in 5 thematically larger groups as follows: 1) tension at the beginning of the encounter, 2) adaptive responses, 3) spiritual relief, 4) family crises, and 5) seeking support.Patients and their families showed different reactions upon receiving bad news. The study showed that health providers can contribute to a better adjustment of patients and families and promote peace by acquiring a methodical approach while delivering bad news. This can be achieved by identifying the reactions, confusions and tensions, as well as introducing adaptive or supportive resources to patients and their families.
Behzad Foroutan, Moussa Abolhassani, Sajad Salehipour, Adnan Karimi, Fariba Dehghanizadeh, Nastran Rezvani, Mohammad Soltani Beldaji,
Volume 8, Issue 4 (11-2015)
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Ethics is important in all professions, particularly in nursing, since morality and commitment in nurses can play a significant role in improving patients’ health and recovery. The nursing profession is therefore rooted in ethics, and the observance of nursing ethics is more important than other aspects of health care. This study aimed to determine patient's views on standards of professional ethics in nursing practice in Imam Hussain Hospital during 2015.
This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 575 patients in different wards of Imam Hussein Hospital in Shahroud. Research instrument was a 22-item questionnaire designed by the researchers to evaluate nurses’ observance of professional ethics in the three dimensions of accountability, improvement of care quality, and respect for patients. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 20 software.
The mean age of participants in this study was 51.32 (± 19.03), and 299 participants (52%) were male. The mean total score of professionalism was 18.38 (± 2.74), and the relationship between age and observance of professional ethics was statistically significant (P = 0.006).
According to the subjects of this study, the nurses’ observance of professional ethics was relatively good and at a desirable level. It is recommended to utilize a variety of learning styles and employ the services of professors of nursing ethics in order to enhance the quality of nursing education with respect to professional ethics.
Maryam Gholami, Marziye Khojastefar, Hossein Moravej, Zahra Kavosi,
Volume 9, Issue 1 (5-2016)
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Observation of patients’ rights as a major component in defining the standards of clinical services can increase patient satisfaction and is an important indicator of health care quality. Since most hospital patients are admitted through the emergency department, this study was conducted to investigate the observance of patients’ rights in the emergency department of Nemazee Hospital during 2015.
This cross-sectional study was performed on 100 patients over a period of one month. Data were collected by a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 21 and statistical tests including descriptive statistics and inferential analysis.
The mean of the patients’ age in this study was 54.4 ± 19.35. Based on our findings, the overall level of observing patients’ rights was 51%, while patients’ expectations were 93%. Moreover, there was a meaningful difference between observance of the patients’ rights and their expectations in all aspects based on the paired sample t-test (P<0.05). It was also established that age was one of the factors affecting observance of patients’rights (P<0.05).
In this study, observation of patients’ rights in the emergency department was at the intermediate level, while patients’ expectations were higher in comparison.
In order to promote patient satisfaction, it seems necessary to educate the personnel and medical students on patients’ rights by holding workshops, reducing the waiting time for receiving services, and establishing an order in the system based on the patient’s condition.
Zahra Rafee, Alireza Bibak, Somaie Hoseinee, Farzan Azodi, Faezeh Jahanpour,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (8-2016)
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Nurses comprise the largest group of service providers in the health system and have a significant impact on health care quality; therefore, ethical practice is of greater importance in the nursing profession compared to other fields of care. The present study was conducted to evaluate patients’ views on nurses’ observance of professional ethics in training hospitals of Bushehr during 2015.
This was a descriptive cross-sectional study performed on 208 patients hospitalized in teaching hospitals of Bushehr selected by convenience sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire including demographic characteristics and questions about ethics of the nursing profession. Validity and reliability of the data collection tool were approved. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Pearson’s correlation coefficient using SPSS version 18.
The results showed that 94.6 percent of the patients evaluated the nurses’ observance of professional ethics as good, 4.4 percent as moderate and 1 percent as poor. Moreover, no significant relationship was found between the independent variables of age, gender, marital status, education level and history of hospitalization ward in the patients, and their views on nurses’ observance of professional ethics.
Somayeh Mohammady, Fariba Borhani, Mostafa Roshanzadeh,
Volume 9, Issue 5 (1-2017)
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Nursing is an ethical profession and nurses are responsible for patient care. In providing healthcare services, patient right is an important issue to consider. However, not only the awareness the patient right is important but also moral sensitivity to ethical decision-making is crucial. This study aimed to determine the relationship between moral sensibility and attitude towards patients' rights. A descriptive-analytic study was used and 194 nurses working in intensive care units in hospitals affiliated to medical university of South Khorasan province were selected by convenience sampling method. The data collected through a questionnaire consisting of three parts: 1) demographics 2) the moral sensitivity questionnaire (Korean version), and 3) a questionnaire survey of nurses' attitudes towards the patients’ rights. Data collected by the software SPSS version 16, and were analyzed descriptive and analytical statistical tests.
The results showed that there is a significant direct relationship between average moral sensibility and nurses' attitudes towards patients’ rights (r= 0.6, P=0.03). The average nurse's ethical sensitivity has been reported 3.05±0.68 0f the total score (0-4). The average attitude towards the patients’ rights was 4 ± 0.8 of the total score (1-5). The relationship between moral sensitivity whit the years of service and age of the participants was significant (P<0.05). There was also a significant relationship between the attitudes of nurses towards patients' rights with gender and years of service (P<0.05). In conclusion it is necessary to provide more moral education to increase nurse’s moral sensitivity towards patients’ rights. It should be noted that due to the fact that moral sensitivity and attitude towards patients' rights increases with the number of years of service the article suggests that considering more experienced nurses in the teams would result a more morally sensitive care for the patients.
Mohammad Mohammadi, Mohammad Shamsoddin Dayani Tilaki, Professor Bagher Larijani,
Volume 9, Issue 6 (3-2017)
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Privacy and confidentiality are the inalienable rights of every human being to preserve his dignity. This issue should be considered in all levels of medical interventions. In the healthcare system, based on respect for privacy and confidentiality, patients decides what information to provide to their physicians. However, if a patient does not provide necessary information to his physician this may impact the diagnosis and treatment. This study aims to evaluate patients’ attitude regarding privacy and confidentiality in healthcare delivery. The result helps policy makers to establish appropriate relations between healthcare providers and patients by realizing its strengths and weaknesses.
This cross-sectional study was carried out on 200 patients, selected in a systematically random way, in Imam Khomeini and Shariati hospitals in Tehran the capital of Iran in 2010. The data were collected directly from patients by trained interviewers based on a questionnaire survey. In order to analyze the data based on the scores of the attitude, patients’ attitudes were classified into three groups of negative, slightly positive, and positive and were evaluated by using various statistical tests.
In result, 56.5% (113) of participants were females and 43.5% (87) were male. In this study, it was found 71 (35.5%) patients were “strongly agree” that male physician can examine female patients and 99 (49.5%) patients were “agree”. Fifty three patients were “strongly agree” that physician may consult with his assistant through training (without the patient's permission) and 103 patients were “agree”. Participants’ attitude about disclosing the patient’s information if a he has threaten self-harm or harm to another person was as follow, 45 (22.5%) patients were “strongly agree”, 82 (41.0%) patients were “agree” and 56 (28.0%) patients had “no comment”. In this study, in general 36 (18.0%) patients had “negative”, 162 (81.0%) patients “slightly positive”, and 2 (1.0%) patients had “positive attitude” towards privacy and confidentiality in healthcare settings.
In conclusion, the study population possessed a moderate attitude towards privacy and confidentiality. These results show that in addition to performing further studies, patients’ attitude towards privacy and confidentiality should be adequately improved.
Amirahmad Shojaei,
Volume 9, Issue 6 (3-2017)
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Although, physicians have a duty to treat their patients, sometimes the cure is not possible in medicine and there is no result in attempt to cure patient. In this situation, we face with two types of patients: first, patients who are conscious but suffering with advanced disease and will survive only for a short time. The second group, are patients who are unconscious and may not be cured with the standard treatment based on physician experience.
The latter are the subject of the present article. So what a Hospital should do in dealing with these patients? How the hospital, should develop a community-based policy on providing care for these patients. Finally, how should inform the public to adhere to these policies.
Hossein Mahmoodian, Hamide Barzegar,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (3-2017)
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Patients have the right to make decision about their medical care. Thus, all the available information regarding decision-making should be provided for them. In surgical context, informed consent is essential for therapeutic relationship between patient and surgeon and sustains mutual trust and shared responsibility for decision making. Thus before surgery, the surgeon should describe available treatments, benefits and harms of them to the patients. So the patient can make a correct decision. In this cross-sectional study, 200 patients underwent gynecological surgery in a hospital in Shiraz during 2014 were recruited. The questionnaire which was used in this study had three parts. The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were evaluated using expert panel and SPSS software. In this study, there was no significant association between age, marriage status, job, home place, emergency or elective surgery and the amount of informed consent. There was significant difference between patients with primary school education and patients with higher education. Patients’ participation in decision making was 57%. Patients’ information about their rights in hospital and the amount of reading informed consent form were poor. This survey shows that the amount of informed consent obtained from patients is poor. So, we should consider some changes in content and obtaining informed consent.
Masomeh Khajeahmadi, Faezeh Jahanpour,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (3-2017)
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Maintaining the privacy is one of the most fundamental rights of the patients, based on the need for respect to human dignity. Considering that today's students are tomorrow's nurses who are directly involved with patients during and after their education, it is necessary to review their performance regarding the privacy of patients. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the privacy practices of patients among trainees and interns of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences. This was a descriptive analytical and cross-sectional study. A total of 283 nursing and midwifery students of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences who had the necessary features to enter this study were selected by consensus method. The data collection tool was privacy questionnaire made by Heidari (2000), which validity and its reliability was confirmed. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software version 23 as well as statistical tests (T-test and ANOVA). The results of this study showed that the average score of patient's privacy was 09.24 ± 11.97. Also, students' performance in the area of personal, human, and in general the patient privacy was approximately good, and there was a significant difference between the average performance of trainees and interns in the domain of human (p-value = 0.002) and, in general, the privacy the patient (p-value = 0.018). There was a significant difference between the demographic factors of the educational level, ethnicity and occupation of students with practice of patient's personal privacy. Since the students' performance regarding the privacy of the patients was good, the administrators and clinicians should plan and take the necessary measures to maintain the present situation.
Jamshid Roosta, Sahar Pourmehdizadeh,
Volume 11, Issue 0 (3-2018)
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Reflecting on the Qara – Khitai of Kerman (from 619 to 704 A.H. / 1223 to 1305 A.D.), we can see that the rule of the dynasty, some women of Qara – Khitai, with expertise and competence into political, economic, scientific and cultural even reached into the kingdom of Kerman. Among these women the one that can be mentioned is -Qutlugh Terken (Terken Khatun), who was directly and indirectly involved in Kerman government for more than 40 years. So, the main question of this article is to assess measures of Qutlugh Terkan for promotion of Kerman's medical condition and further investigation of patients' rights. One of the findings of the present study was that Terken Khatun, build and equipped hospitals in Kerman with best facilities about eight hundred years ago, she also constructed an advanced school to train a new generation of intellectuals including physicians.
Ali Hassan Rahmani, Mina Ranjgaran Alanagh, Farkhondeh Jamshidi,
Volume 13, Issue 0 (3-2020)
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Increased patient satisfaction can promote patient’s compliance with prescribed treatments and improve patients’ health. The aim of this study was to determine the patients’ satisfaction with nurses in surgical departments of Imam, Razi, and Golestan hospitals of Ahvaz city in 2018. In this descriptive-analytic study, patients over 18 years of age with at least 3 days of hospitalization were studied. Data including age, sex, marriage status, level of education, type of illness, hospitalization time, number of hospital admissions, and health status were collected through a demographic form. Patients’ satisfaction with nurses was obtained by the satisfaction questionnaire of nursing services. Chi-square, one-way analysis of variance, Kruskal-Wallis analysis, Mann-Whitney test, and Spearman correlation coefficient were used to analyze by SPSS software. Patients’ satisfaction in Imam, Razi and Golestan hospitals were 78.25±12.09, 68.30±11.24, and 58.09±17.42, respectively. Highest level of patients’ satisfaction was with Razi hospital nurses (P-value<0.05).There were no significant difference between patients of different hospitals regarding age, marriage status, place of residence, hospitalization history, and education level (P-value>0.05).With increasing age, having a history of admission, an increase in the duration of hospitalization, the patients’ satisfaction score decreased significantly (P-value<0.05), but there was no significant difference between the patients’ satisfaction by marriage status, place of residence and level of education (P-value>0.05). It is suggested that effective strategies for increasing patients’ satisfaction be applied through more care and attention of more sensitive people. Also, increasing awareness of the community about the duties of patients, nurses, and medical staff is recommended.
Omid Asemani, Zahra Javadi, Seddigheh Ebrahimi,
Volume 13, Issue 0 (3-2020)
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Regarding how to make decisions on the revelation of medical errors done by colleagues, investigation of physicians' points of view particularly those in educational settings could help the improvement of circumstances to which we encounter medical errors and thus respecting patient's rights. This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted through a researcher-made questionnaire after performing face and content validaty and determination of internal and external reliability. The viewpoint of 40 attending physicians and 112 medical residents from different specialties about their inclination to disclose errors, the results of disclosure, the factors influencing on nondisclosure, and the factors decreasing medical errors were asked. Data were analyzed using SPSS v.21. Mean scores of 15.2±1.3 for attending and 12.56±2.05 for residents regarding the dimension of "inclination to disclose others' medical error"; and mean scores of 7.55±0.677 for attending and 9.09±2.01 for residents in terms of "inclination to NOT disclose" were differed significantly (p<0.001). Participants declared the head of medical department/ward as the best authority for managing and dealing with medical errors as the best approach for disclosure of the errors through attendance of the senior physician accompanied by the physician who has made the error. Urban general physicians, nurses, and first-year residents were reported with the most frequency of the errors. The data can be used for the promotion of the patient's rights and the perspective of the medical team when encountering errors done by a colleague, rightfully, and protectively. Building cultural, legal, and social contexts will be the mission of the educational-medical settings aimed at making possible a scientific and skillful error disclosure.
