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The informed consent procedure from the patients´ perspective
FRAŇKOVÁ, Květoslava
In 2001, the Czech Republic ratified the Convention on Biomedicine. This convention is based on a strategy of partnership between physician and patient. This strategy is being implemented by informing patients of their rights in health care. The patients who are adequately informed of the nature, purpose, risks and consequences of treatment may freely decide whether they want to undergo a treatment or not. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the legislation in force on the informed consent and its various aspects. The practical part gives a survey of the knowledge of the rights that result from the informed consent and the implementation of those rights into practice. The objective of this section is to determine the legal awareness of the issue of the informed consent, especially from the patients´ {--} citizens´ perspective. The hypothesis 1 assumes that respondents with higher education are better aware of their rights arising form the informed consent than respondents with lower education. Hypothesis 2 assumes that respondents with higher education better employ the rights derived form the informed consent than respondents with lower education. The investigation was conducted in citizens living, working or studying in České Budějovice. To verify the hypotheses the quantitative research, carried out through a questioning method using the questionnaire technique, was conducted. The objective was achieved. On the basis of obtained data that were evaluated in percentage terms, the hypothesis 1 was refuted and the hypothesis 2 was confirmed. The research outcomes show that knowledge of the rights arising from the informed consent is almost identical for both groups of respondents, but in practice these rights are being claimed more likely by respondents with higher education. These results showed the need of focusing attention on informing patients about the practical application of their rights arising form the informed consent.
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