Monitoring Patient Rights - A clinical seminar

Medicine and Law

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 521-539

  Shalev, Carmel ^a   Freiman, Efrat ^a  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Implementation; Israel Patient Rights Law; Quality of care indicators.

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; LAW; LAW SUIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT RIGHT; PRIVACY; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEAMWORK; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036401708     PISSN: 07231393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. "Declaration of Patients' Rights," Circular 21/96 (12 August 1996) issued by the Director General of the Ministry of Health.
2. Other research methods were rejected for various reasons. For example, observing patients without their knowledge is not appropriate in this area because it would violated their right to privacy. Similarly, distributing a written questionnaire would require translating the document in order to include persons who are not Hebrew speakers, and would exclude illiterate patients from participating.
3. Five interviews were conducted with parents of the patients. In one instance, the patient, an older child, was interviewed.
4. Another possible solution to this problem is to respect the wishes of the patient, ask for the reasons for the refusal to sign the form, and to proceed with the interview while documenting such reasons.
5. All the obstetrics patients were already registered in the department from the fifth month of pregnancy. As a result, they were hospitalized without going through the emergency room. If the children were admitted via the emergency room, it was through the pediatric emergency room. Persons admitted to the Oncology Day Hospitalization Department are not admitted through the emergency room, but rather through the referral of a community physician.
6. See, for example, Civil Complaint (Beersheva), Assa v. Histadrut Health Fund, District Court Reports 5747 [1987] (3) 32.
7. For an explanation on informed consent according to Israeli judicial rulings prior to the Law, see Amos Shapira, "Informed Consent to Medical Treatment - The Law as it Is and as it Should Be" (in Hebrew), 14 Iyuney Mishpat (1989) 225.
8. Civil Complaint (Beersheva) 92/93, Niv Yarkoni v. Dr. Doron Rosen et al, 98(1) Takdin Mehozi. [Carmel - is there a page number?].
9. Hunter College Women's Studies Collective, Women's Realities, Women's Choices - An Introduction to Women's Studies (Oxford University Press, 1983), chap. 12: "Women and Health." "It is socially expected behavior for women to be passive, accepting, and child-like in many areas, but this is especially true in connection with our medical relationships" (p. 444).
10. Hildia Bastian, "Speaking Up for Ourselves: The Evolution of Consumer Advocacy in Health Care," 14 International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (1988) 3, 9.
11. Isaiah Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty, in Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford, 1969) 131.
12. Patients' Rights, 5752-1992, Hatza'ot Hok 359.