Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente

Background: There is a paucity of information on the perception of patients about ethical issues in medical practice. Aim: To determine the type and frequency of ethical problems perceived by patients hospitalized in public and private hospitals. Material and methods: Eighty eight subjects aged 65ye...

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Autores principales: León R,Tomás, Bedregal,Paula, Shand B,Beatriz
Lenguaje:Spanish / Castilian
Publicado: Sociedad Médica de Santiago 2009
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spelling oai:scielo:S0034-988720090006000052009-09-04Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del pacienteLeón R,TomásBedregal,PaulaShand B,Beatriz Confidentiality Ethics Physician-patient relations Background: There is a paucity of information on the perception of patients about ethical issues in medical practice. Aim: To determine the type and frequency of ethical problems perceived by patients hospitalized in public and private hospitals. Material and methods: Eighty eight subjects aged 65years (48% women), admitted to a public hospital and 44 subjects aged 59 years (52% women) admitted to a private clinic answered a survey about ethical problems. The main issues covered were medical information management, participation in decision making and intimacy of patients. Results: Fifty three percent of patients perceived at least one ethical problem. Patients admitted to the public hospital perceived more communication and intimacy problems than their peers admitted to a private clinic. Conclusions: Approximately half of the interviewed patients acknowledged the presence of ethical problems, especially in the communication and intimacy areas).info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Médica de SantiagoRevista médica de Chile v.137 n.6 20092009-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872009000600005es10.4067/S0034-98872009000600005
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language Spanish / Castilian
topic Confidentiality
Ethics
Physician-patient relations
spellingShingle Confidentiality
Ethics
Physician-patient relations
León R,Tomás
Bedregal,Paula
Shand B,Beatriz
Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
description Background: There is a paucity of information on the perception of patients about ethical issues in medical practice. Aim: To determine the type and frequency of ethical problems perceived by patients hospitalized in public and private hospitals. Material and methods: Eighty eight subjects aged 65years (48% women), admitted to a public hospital and 44 subjects aged 59 years (52% women) admitted to a private clinic answered a survey about ethical problems. The main issues covered were medical information management, participation in decision making and intimacy of patients. Results: Fifty three percent of patients perceived at least one ethical problem. Patients admitted to the public hospital perceived more communication and intimacy problems than their peers admitted to a private clinic. Conclusions: Approximately half of the interviewed patients acknowledged the presence of ethical problems, especially in the communication and intimacy areas).
author León R,Tomás
Bedregal,Paula
Shand B,Beatriz
author_facet León R,Tomás
Bedregal,Paula
Shand B,Beatriz
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title Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
title_short Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
title_full Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
title_fullStr Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
title_full_unstemmed Prevalencia de problemas éticos en Servicios de Medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
title_sort prevalencia de problemas éticos en servicios de medicina, desde la perspectiva del paciente
publisher Sociedad Médica de Santiago
publishDate 2009
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872009000600005
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