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Persona y Bioética
Print version ISSN 0123-3122On-line version ISSN 2027-5382
Abstract
REYES-GUZMAN, Solange and FERNANDEZ-SILVA, Carlos Alberto. KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMED CONSENT IN SPECIALISTS FROM THE SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF A HOSPITAL IN CHILE. pers.bioét. [online]. 2021, vol.25, n.1, e2516. Epub Apr 07, 2021. ISSN 0123-3122. https://doi.org/10.5294/pebi.2021.25.1.6.
The Patients’ Rights and Duties Act, promulgated in Chile in 2012, has made the informed consent process a critical step to respect the patient’s autonomy. It is then relevant to test health workers’ knowledge of the subject, especially in the surgery department. We carried out a quantitative study on 90 specialists from the surgery department in a public tertiary hospital, to whom a questionnaire was administered to test their knowledge of informed consent. We found that 76.6 % of the respondents have a low level of knowledge, creating a setting in which patients’ rights can be violated.
Keywords : Informed consent; knowledge; personal autonomy; respect; physicians; hospital surgery department.