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Patients' healthcare, education, engagement, and empowerment rights' framework: Patients', caretakers' and health care workers' perspectives from Oromia, Ethiopia.

Zewdie Birhanu KorichaFira AbamechaNimona BerhanuTadesse DukessaMesfin Beharu DemeShimelis LegesseYohannes Kebede Lemu
Published in: PloS one (2021)
Perceived patients' rights in the context of hospital visits were profoundly numerous, ranging from the right to access clinical and non-clinical services that are humanely respectful, fulfilling socio-cultural contexts, and in a manner that is organizationally coordinated. Nonetheless, the rights were not largely realized and fulfilled. Engaging, educating, and empowering patients, caretakers, and health care providers supported with policy framework could help to move towards patient-centered and right-based healthcare whereby patients' rights are protected and fulfilled in such resource-limited settings.
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