Clinical, ethical and legal issues on medical information to patients and relatives Información médica a pacientes y familiares: Aspectos clínicos, éticos y legales
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Nogales-Gaete, Jorge
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Vargas-Silva, Paola
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Vidal-Cañas, Iván
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2019-03-15T16:05:58Z
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2019-03-15T16:05:58Z
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2013
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Revista Medica de Chile, Volumen 141, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 1190-1196
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00349887
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07176163
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10.4067/S0034-98872013000900012
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/166085
Abstract
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Providing information to patients and relatives (IPAR) is a clinical, ethical and legal need. IPAR is inherent to the medical team work as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are. In some cases, it is a key step for patient's recovery. From an ethical point of view, the patient is not only the subject of the medical work but also its main owner and who must, previously informed, decide about options which would directly affect him. After the promulgation of a special law in Chile, this prerogative became a legal right. This paper proposes an empirically developed model or protocol that should be used to inform hospitalized patients and their relatives about their disease, in a pertinent way. Considering that IPAR is a skill that should be learned and practiced, the written protocol is provided to neurology residents as supporting material. Although IPAR protocols are completely justified, they have not been evaluated in terms of efficiency of communication, user satisfaction, patient
Clinical, ethical and legal issues on medical information to patients and relatives Información médica a pacientes y familiares: Aspectos clínicos, éticos y legales