Hospitalized Patients' Rights

Patients as one of the most vulnerable social groups from the aspect of physical, psychological, social and economic, have formal and legal rights that in all societies try to follow it. In this paper, is tried to review the history of patient’s rights charter and then the results of several studies on the situation of patients’ rights in health centers has been reported.

This paper is a review article that based on collecting data by searching the key words: “Patients’ rights” “Hospitalized” in the library, theses and online databases: SID, Google Scholar & Magi ran among 2008 -2016 has been done.

Effective factors on patients' rights are classified in three groups: organizational factors, factors related to personnel (doctors, nurses) and factors related to service recipients (patients, clients). In addition, factors such as age, education level, place of residence (urban / rural), duration of hospitalization, can have an impact on patients' rights. Also marked, this charter as well as among health care personnel and patients is unknown or if know, have still not implemented properly.

Discussion and Conclusion:

Patients' rights are not in good condition. Therefore, it is suggested, the authorities focused on programs to educate and increase public awareness in base of patient rights.