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Investigating subjects and quantity of articles related with medical ethics in Islamic countries, Eastern Mediterranean Region of World Health Organization, indexed on PubMedAbstractIntroduction: Among different branches of professional ethics, medical ethics has a specific position due to the high and special level of professional ethics. Medical ethics is also considered especially in Islamic teachings. Due to novelty advancements in medical science in recent years, new and deep discussions have proposed on medical ethics field that considered issues on medical ethics can be specified via investigating articles as well as the domains searching on these issues and also one can infer the priorities considered by the authors of above articles and domains regarding medical ethics that have not been nor studied or investigated up to now will be determined in that investigators can have participation on these fields based on their national and regional priorities.Methodology: This article is the review study that by referring to PubMed data base, the articles were investigated based on 19 titles includes 15 titles of 24 titles related to the introduced bioethics by health information section of Medline Plus as well as 4 titles related to war, research, education and medical ethics principles, indexed in PubMed that published by investigators in Islamic countries in Eastern Mediterranean region (EMRO) of WHO.Findings: The articles were categorized and compared based on the year of publication, country and the study title. The minimum number of articles based on the country in Time Zone from 1971 to 2012 with one article related to countries such as Djibouti and Palestine and the maximum amount that were 71 were related to country of Iran. Also, the minimum number of article based on year was one article in years of 1971, 1978, 1979 and 1984 the maximum ones were 39 in 2012. The minimum number based on title was an article on clinical trials and fraud in health and the maximum number were 64 on the principles of medical ethics. Conclusion: This survey is only to investigate the articles related to index medical ethics on PubMed in Islamic countries of Eastern Mediterranean region of WHO. Although additional studies are necessary to complete the information on this field but this article is considered as the first one with categorizing medical ethics articles with the approach of variability of issue and since the origin of their publication is in Islamic countries, is exclusive can be the basis of wider studies and investigating different dimensions in the future. The studies containing medical ethics in our country should be based on goal as well as national and regional priorities to meet the needs of Islamic Iranian nation.
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Exploring the Extent of Patients' Rights Observation by Health-Treatment personnel in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital of Yazd in 2011 in the opinion of InpatientsThe experiences have shown that informing the patients and engaging them in the decision-making for treatment and respecting their rights will accelerate their improvement and diminish their period of stay at the hospitals. Evidences demonstrate that despite the efforts by the physicians and other staff of the health and treatment department and notwithstanding benefiting from the resources, the extent of patients' discontent and complaints is increasing and one of its causes is the failure of physicians and nurses in establishing relations with the patients. This descriptive research was performed by a cross-sectional method in March 2011. In this study, 150 inpatients in gynecology and obstetrics, internal medicine I, internal medicine II, surgery and cancer departments of Shahid Sadoughi hospital of Yazd who had been hospitalized for more than one day were selected by the random sampling method. The results concerning the observation of each paragraph show that the personnel always observed paragraphs 1, 3 and 6 almost 50% respectively. It is interesting that paragraphs 2, 4 and 9 had not occurred for almost 60% of them and 46 patients (31.5%) reported that the paragraph 3 was rarely observed by the personnel. Generally, the most amplitude concerned the reception of honorable treatment. To sum up, considering performed explorations, the following solutions are recommended: informing the personnel of the importance of observing the patients' rights, informing the patients of their rights through the personnel and the media, planning the hospital's management in legal respect which is less observed, more cooperation of the personnel and the patients with each other, following up the breaches of patients' rights and ratification of acts for ensuring the observance of patients' rights and monitoring the enforcement of these rights to promote the patients' consent from the health-treatment services and the increase of the medical staff's attention to the observation of patients' rights.
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Exploring the Extent of Patients’ Awareness of the Patients’ Rights Charter in Shahid Sadoughi Hospital of Yazd in 2000The patients’ rights charter has been codified for the purpose that on one hand the patients become acquainted with their rights and on the other hand this charter is principally observed by the hospitals. In our country, despite the approval of the patients’ rights charter by the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education in 2002, it has not yet been recognized and accepted correctly. This descriptive study has been performed in a cross-sectional manner. In this study, 150 patients with more than 24 hours of hospitalization records in gynecology, obstetrics, internal medicine I, internal medicine II, and surgery and cancer wards of Shahid Sadoughi Hospital of Yazd were chosen by an easy random sampling method. Most awareness was of the paragraph 1 related with the due treatment and/or respecting without noting racial, cultural and religious factors and the least awareness was related with the paragraph 9 i.e. the patients’ awareness of the types of educational and research activities. Therefore, considering the results of this research and other studies, the researchers provide proposals for the increase of the patients’ awareness of their rights that include: supply of the patients’ rights charter to the patients upon reception at the hospital and explanation of its contents by the hospital staff, execution of educational programs (pamphlet, brochure, poster, etc) for the patients.