Patient’s Rights and Responsibilities as Perceived by Health Care Providers and Patients

Abstract

A comparative cross-sectional analytic design were utilized and it was conducted at the Nasser Institute Hospital &AL-Demerdash Hospital. It involved 100 staff nurses, 120 physicians and 220 patients. Data were collected using selfadministered questionnaire sheets. This study revealed the following results: - The comparison of total perception of patient rights between physicians in the two hospitals. It demonstrates that physicians' percentages in Nasser institute were mostly lower than physicians' percentages in Al-Demerdash. These differences were statistically significant in three of the sixteen domains of rights and responsibility. These were related to decision making, refusing treatment and responding to needs. Very high percentages of perception of patient responsibilities among physicians' in Nasser institute and physicians' in Al-Demerdash, for all items (100%).