Parsapoor Alireza, Bagheri Alireza, Larijani Bagher
Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. & Department of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran..
Department of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran..
Acta Med Iran. 2014;52(1):24-8.
Given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran. Iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. This charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. This paper presents the Iranian patient's rights charter. Based on a study done from 2007 to 2009, the charter has been finalized through an extensive consultation involving all stakeholders, patients, physicians, nurses, lawyers, patient associations and health policy makers. The developed charter was adopted by the Ministry of Health in December 2009. Iranian patient's rights charter has been formulated in the framework of 5 chapters and 37 articles including vision and an explanatory note. The five chapters concern right to receiving appropriate services, right to access desired and enough information, right to choose and decide freely about receiving healthcare, right to privacy and confidentiality, and finally right to access an efficient system of dealing with complaints which have been explained in 14, 9, 7, 4 and 3 articles, respectively. The paper concludes that, adopting the patient's rights charter is a valuable measure to meet patient's rights; however, a serious challenge is how to implement and acculturate observing patient's rights in practice in our healthcare system in Iran.
鉴于患者权利在医疗保健中的重要性，伊朗卫生和医学教育部对患者权利概念给予了特别关注。伊朗患者权利宪章采用了新颖而全面的方法进行编纂。该宪章旨在阐明卫生服务接受者的权利以及遵守医学伦理标准。本文介绍了伊朗患者权利宪章。基于2007年至2009年进行的一项研究，该宪章通过涉及所有利益相关者、患者、医生、护士、律师、患者协会和卫生政策制定者的广泛协商而最终确定。制定的宪章于2009年12月被卫生部采纳。伊朗患者权利宪章在包括愿景和解释性说明在内的5章37条框架内制定。这五章分别涉及获得适当服务的权利、获取所需和足够信息的权利、就接受医疗保健自由选择和决定的权利、隐私和保密权利，以及最后获得有效投诉处理系统的权利，分别在14条、9条、7条、4条和3条中进行了阐述。本文得出结论，通过患者权利宪章是满足患者权利的一项宝贵措施；然而，一个严峻的挑战是如何在伊朗我们的医疗保健系统中实际实施和融入对患者权利的遵守。
