Title

What Patients Know About Their Rights In Turkey

Keywords

Customers' rights; Patient rights in Turkey; Turkish health care

Abstract

Patients' rights issues are currently being discussed in health care at both the private and public levels in Turkey. In this study, 317 patients were interviewed upon hospital discharge and asked what they knew about their “rights” as patients. According to the collected data, 63% of the patients were not aware that they had any rights in receiving health care services at all. Since this is the first study of its type in Turkey, further research in this area is needed. In closing, it is recommended that hospitals in Turkey adapt routine policies similar to those in the United States for informing customers about their rights for safe, effective and efficient health care provision. © 2000 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

7-21-2000

Publication Title

Journal of Health and Social Policy

Volume

12

Issue

1

Number of Pages

53-69

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1300/J045v12n01_04

Socpus ID

0033861093 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0033861093

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