Patients' awareness of their rights, associated factors and its practice by health professionals from a patient perspective among elective surgical patients at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study, 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the patients' awareness of their rights, associated factors and the practice of these rights by the medical team from the patients' perspective at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.DesignAn institution-based prospective cross-sectional study was carried out.

Setting

The research was conducted from January to May 2021 in a specialised hospital in central Ethiopia.

Participants

392 people who had elective surgery were included in this study; 217 men and 175 women responded. Systematic random sampling was employed to choose the research subjects, and K (skip interval) was calculated using the 3-month surgical waiting list at the hospital. Patients under the age of 18, those with severe illnesses, those who were not inpatients, and those who h

SUBMITTER: Dessalegn K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9703307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature