Epidemiology and Statistics
yalda ravanshad; Mohadese Golsorkhi; elham Bakhtiari; aghil lollah keykhosravi; anoush azarfar; malihe shoja; mohamad behazin; sahar ravanshad; alireza ghodsi
Volume 28, Issue 2 , May and June 2021, , Pages 183-188
Abstract
Introduction: The patient’s self-discharge from the hospital is a process in which the patient leaves the hospital voluntarily without completing the course of treatment, despite medical advice, and can indicate patient dissatisfaction and a significant challenge for health system managers. This ...
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Introduction: The patient’s self-discharge from the hospital is a process in which the patient leaves the hospital voluntarily without completing the course of treatment, despite medical advice, and can indicate patient dissatisfaction and a significant challenge for health system managers. This study was conducted to investigate the causes and consequences of a patient's self-discharge from Dr. Sheikh Hospital as a referral center in the northeast of Iran.
Material and Method: All patients who were discharged with the personal consent from the hospital with personal consent between October 2014 and March 2015 were included in the study. A checklist was used to collect data. The patients' outcome was completed by telephone a week later. Finally, SPSS statistical software was used to evaluate the results.
Results: Totally, 51 patients were included in this study. The leading causes of discharge with personal consent were including dissatisfaction with the physician and medical staff in 23 patients (45.1%), home care preference in 12 patients (23.5%), distance from the hospital in 5 patients (9.8%), teaching at the hospital in 3 patients (،5.9), the high cost of treatment in 3 patients (9 5.9), the overcrowding of the hospital in 3 patients (9 5.9) and the lack of specialist or diagnostic and therapeutic devices in 2 patients (3.9%). Also, in the study of patients' outcome, 21 patients (41.1%) referred to the doctor again, 18 patients (35.3%) continued treatment at home, 9 patients (17.7%) were readmitted and 2 patients (3.9%) died.
Conclusion: The most common cause of discharge with personal consent was dissatisfaction from the treatment team. Given that 3.9% of patients have died and a large number of patients have been re-referred to the doctor and be readmitted, it seems that justifying patients to refrain from self-discharge is in the patient's best interest.
Saeed Sadeghieh Ahari; Zahra Tazakori; Shahram Habib zadeh; Oktay Yahyavi; Vadod Novrozi; Maryam Namadi Vosogh
Volume 22, Issue 2 , May and June 2015, , Pages 472-480
Abstract
Background: The issue of patients’ rights has become the spotlight of attention over the two past decades. Expectations’ of patients from health centers and respecting their rights are of importance. This study was performed to evaluate respecting patients’ rights and expectations’ of patients ...
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Background: The issue of patients’ rights has become the spotlight of attention over the two past decades. Expectations’ of patients from health centers and respecting their rights are of importance. This study was performed to evaluate respecting patients’ rights and expectations’ of patients in hospitals of medical science university of Ardabil.
This study performed to determine the extent to which patients' rights and expectations’ are respected in hospitals of Ardabil when judged against national patients’ rights charter.
Methods and Materials: A descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 hospitalized patients in three major hospitals of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences in 2012 (hospitals of Ardebil University of Medical Sciences; Imam Khomeini, Fatemi, and Bu-Ali hospitals). The sample of patients was distributed based on the ratio of the number of beds in each ward to the total number of beds in each hospital. Data were collected using questionnaire and interview at discharge time and analyzed through descriptive and analytical statistics methods, utilizing IBM SPSS Statistics 21 software.
Results: The results of this study have shown that; the overall adherence level to the patients’ rights charter was 50.69% and overall patients’ expectations was 85/5%. Levels of respecting and patients expectations to the factors “Communication with patients”, “Providing information for patients”, “Privacy”, “Access to good healthcare services”, “Free choice of services and the right of refusal”, “Right to have informed consent”, “Access to health education”, “Confidentiality of patients’ information” and “Handling of complaints” were (68.5%, 90%) , (4.5%,74.46%), (56.37%,83%), (54%,88.5%), (19.12%,81.9%), (61.16%,87.6%), (64%,88%), (46.16%,82.6%) and (42.5%,93.2%) respectively. Respecting to the charter have significant differences according to sex and age, also there were significant differences between expectations, education, age and residency of patients (p