TY - JOUR ID - 40442 TI - Awareness and Observance of Patient Rights from the Perspective of Iranian Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis JO - Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences JA - IJMS LA - en SN - 0253-0716 AU - Abedi, Ghassem AU - Shojaee, Jalil AU - Moosazadeh, Mahmod AU - Rostami, Farideh AU - Nadi, Aliasghar AU - Abedini, Ehsan AU - Palenik, Charles John AU - Askarian, Mehrdad AD - Department of Health Care Management, Health Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran AD - Health Sciences Research Center, Faculty of Health, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran AD - Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN, USA AD - Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz Anesthesiology and Critical Care Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 42 IS - 3 SP - 227 EP - 234 KW - Patient rights KW - Patients KW - Meta-analysis KW - Awareness DO - N2 - Background: Recipients of healthcare services have rights, which must be acknowledged and protected. Such rights include observance of acceptable patient physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs guided by commonly accepted rules and regulations. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of awareness rates and observance of patient rights in Iran from the perspective of the patient.Methods: In this study, various references such as Medline (PubMed), Scopus, Scientific Information Database (SID), Google scholar, Magiran, and IranMedex were searched (from August to December 2015). Heterogeneity was assessed using the Q statistic. English and Persian search keywords and combinations included terms such as “patient bill of rights, patient rights, Iranian patient bill of rights, and Persian patient rights.” A meta-analysis of the primary search sources was accomplished using STATA (version 11.0).Results: Initial review included 20 articles of which 12 assessed observance rates of patient rights and three described service awareness rates of recipients concerning their personal rights. Five articles covered both topics and had an estimated 54.2% coverage based on the results of meta-analysis and the random-effects model with the heterogeneity.Conclusion: An Observance rate of patient bills of rights was considered somewhat adequate. However, contradictions in findings noted in this study suggest deficiencies do exist and need to be resolved. There appears a need to better describe and increase awareness rates of healthcare services by patients concerning their own bill of rights.  UR - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40442.html L1 - https://ijms.sums.ac.ir/article_40442_62a35e76f84f715022bba4eb881c34fc.pdf ER -