2017
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzx182
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Awareness and practice of patient rights from a patient perspective: an insight from Upper Egypt†

Abstract: The greater part of the patients was not aware of their rights at a satisfactory level. Health care providers should place more emphasis on increasing the patients' awareness about their rights and involve them in making decisions regarding their treatment choices. The Ministry of Health needs to be more sensitive to this issue.

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“…Our findings are consistent with the literature which highlights awareness about rights as a prerequisite to exercising one's agency. [38][39][40][41][42] Our findings highlight that while being aware is necessary, mere awareness is not enough for exercising agency and rights, echoing the literature on limited feedback by the socioeconomically disadvantaged in Nepal, Russia and Israel 11 41 42 and highincome contexts such as the UK. 43 Fears of retribution and distrust of the system consistently underpin people's decisions not to complain.…”
Section: Collecting Feedbacksupporting
confidence: 55%
“…Our findings are consistent with the literature which highlights awareness about rights as a prerequisite to exercising one's agency. [38][39][40][41][42] Our findings highlight that while being aware is necessary, mere awareness is not enough for exercising agency and rights, echoing the literature on limited feedback by the socioeconomically disadvantaged in Nepal, Russia and Israel 11 41 42 and highincome contexts such as the UK. 43 Fears of retribution and distrust of the system consistently underpin people's decisions not to complain.…”
Section: Collecting Feedbacksupporting
confidence: 55%
“…Our ndings are consistent with the literature which highlights awareness about rights as a prerequisite to exercising one's agency (38)(39)(40)(41)(42). Our ndings suggest that while being aware is necessary, mere awareness is not enough for exercising agency and rights, echoing the literature on lack of complaining by the socio-economically disadvantaged in Nepal, Russia and Israel (19,41,42).…”
Section: Figure 3 and 4 Heresupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The lowest score would be 0 points while the highest score would be 18 points. A cut-off point was determined based on the median value of the total knowledge score (12) at or above the median value were classified as good knowledge, whereas those having a knowledge score less than the median value classified as having poor knowledge (9) For the practice questions (done was scored 1 and not done was scored 0) with maximum total score 17, the practice score was considered poor if the score was less than or equal 8 (less than 50%), moderate if the score was 9 to 12 (50% to 70%) and good if the score was 13 to 17 (71% to 100%) (10) .…”
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confidence: 99%