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The patient's right to third person presence in healthcare facility
Štěpánová, Dominika ; Šustek, Petr (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
Resumé This thesis discusses the problematics of third person presence alongside a patient in a healthcare facility. Despite this subject having been relevant for tens of years, it has only recently been brought to public attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In practice, the right to third person presence in accordance with the provisions of Article 28(3e) of the Health Services Act is commonly misinterpreted as the right to receiving visitors in accordance with the provisions of Article 28(3i) of the Health Services Act. Due in part to this fact, the main goal of this thesis is establishing legal clarity in this domain of healthcare law. The bulk of this paper consists of introduction and analysis of legislation, notably the Health Services Act, in light of international pacts and laws of the Czech Republic, on constitutional level but not limited to it. The most crucial, however, is Chapter 3, which discusses specific provisions of the Healthcare Services Act concerning the right to presence, specifically the provisions of Article 28 of this Act. Furthermore, qualitative research has been conducted among 73 Czech healthcare workers. The sample comprises respondents aged 22 to 77 with a broad spectrum of specialization and aims to present to the reader the point of view of physicians and other...
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