Citation

Hernando P. Rev. Calid. Asist. 2005; 20(6): 353-356.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/s1134-282x(05)70776-4

PMID

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Abstract

Patients' rights first arose as a question of quality from the perspective of users themselves in the United States, a cultural environment that differs from our own. This contextual difference led to difficulties in implementing and understanding patients' rights in Spain. Patients' rights are the specification of human rights in the management of the patient's own body and are one more human right. The most salient right concerns informed consent. This right has been, and continues to be, difficult to implement and is usually understood as a formal goal of certain documentation rather than as a demand for quality (of process). Possible future developments may involve concrete guidelines on the right to die (euthanasia, assisted suicide), as well as specification of the benefits of the public health system.

Language: es

Keywords

United States; Spain; human rights; documentation; assisted suicide; public health; review; euthanasia; informed consent; patient right; health care; Quality; Informed consent; Patients' rights