{"id":8622,"date":"2023-03-03T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T08:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hospitalespascual.com\/patient-rights-and-responsibilities\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:43:57","slug":"patient-rights-and-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hospitalespascual.com\/en\/patient-rights-and-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Rights and Responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8622\" class=\"elementor elementor-8622 elementor-942\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c3a2bcd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c3a2bcd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-841e833\" data-id=\"841e833\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ebcbd18 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ebcbd18\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Patient Rights and Responsibilities<\/h3><p><b>Rights<\/b><\/p><p><b>1.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To respect for their personality, human dignity and privacy, without being discriminated against for reasons of race, social type, sex, economic, moral, ideological, political or trade union reasons.<\/span><\/p><p><b>2.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To information about the health services they can access, and about the requirements for their use.<\/span><\/p><p><b>3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.To the confidentiality of all information related to their process and their stay in the Center.<\/span><\/p><p><b>4.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be warned if the procedures applied to them may be used as part of a teaching or research project that, in no case, may involve additional danger to health. In any case, the prior authorization and in writing of the patient and the acceptance by the doctor and the Management of the Center will be essential. <\/span><\/p><p><b>5<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.To be given, in understandable terms, to them and their family members or relatives, complete and continuous information about their process, including diagnosis, prognosis and treatment alternatives.<\/span><\/p><p><b>6.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To the free choice between the options presented by the medical officer in charge of their case, the prior written consent of the user being necessary for the performance of any intervention, except in the following cases:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7 When the NON-intervention poses a risk to public health.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7 When they are not able to make decisions, in which case, the right will correspond to their family members or relatives.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00b7 When the urgency does not allow delays due to irreversible injuries or danger of death.<\/span><\/p><p><b>7.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be assigned a doctor, whose name will be made known to them, who will be their main interlocutor with the care team. In case of absence, another doctor of the team will assume such responsibility. <\/span><\/p><p><b>8.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be issued a certificate accrediting their state of health, when its requirement is established by a legal or regulatory provision.<\/span><\/p><p><b>9.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To refuse treatment, except in the cases indicated in section 6, and must therefore request Voluntary Discharge, in the terms indicated in section 4 of the Duties.<\/span><\/p><p><b>10.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To have a written record of their entire process. At the end of the user&#8217;s stay, the patient, family member or relative will receive their discharge report.<\/span><\/p><p><b>11.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To use the channels of complaint and suggestion proposal within the foreseen deadlines. In either case, they must receive a written response within the deadlines established by regulations. <\/span><\/p><p><b>12<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.To be informed about aspects of collective health of special interest, incidence or risk.<\/span><\/p><p><b>13.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be offered the care, benefits and health services available that are considered necessary to take care of their health.<\/span><\/p><p><b>14.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive clear and understandable information regarding treatments, surgical procedures and diagnostic tests that involve risks, before obtaining their written consent.<\/span><\/p><p><b>15.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access their medical history, through the established procedures.<\/span><\/p><p><b>16.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have the Charter of Rights and Duties available in all health centers.<\/span><\/p><p><b>17.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That all appropriate actions are carried out that, together with the attention to their process, are aimed at reducing and alleviating suffering and pain both in those critical situations and before the process of death, in accordance with the utmost respect for autonomy, integrity and human dignity.<\/span><\/p><p><b>18.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That advance wills, expressed through the established procedure, are taken into account.<\/span><\/p><p><b>19.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be received in a personalized way upon arrival at a health center and to be informed of all the issues that may make their stay more comfortable.<\/span><\/p><p><b>20.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Receive health care in an appropriate time according to the process, as well as to be offered information on the response times of consultations, tests and interventions for the various processes.<\/span><\/p><p><b>Duties<\/b><\/p><p><b>1.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comply with the general prescriptions of a health nature of the Center<\/span><\/p><p><b>2.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take care of the facilities and collaborate in the maintenance of the habitability of the Center.<\/span><\/p><p><b>3.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take responsibility for the proper use of the Center&#8217;s services.<\/span><\/p><p><b>4.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maintain due respect for the rules established in the center, as well as for the staff that provides its services in it.<\/span><\/p><p><b>5.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comply with the administrative rules and requirements of use and access to the services of the center.<\/span><\/p><p><b>6.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sign the voluntary discharge document in cases of non-acceptance of treatment. If you refuse to do so, the Management of the Center, at the proposal of the doctor in charge of the case, may give the Discharge. <\/span><\/p><p><br><br><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patient Rights and Responsibilities Rights 1.To respect for their personality, human dignity and privacy, without being discriminated against for reasons of race, social type, sex, economic, moral, ideological, political or trade union reasons. 2.To information about the health services they can access, and about the requirements for their use. 3.To the confidentiality of all information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8435,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8622","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.12 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - 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