PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Functional Illiteracy, Belmont Report, Health Literacy
9 Feb 2017
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Not necessary for hospitals to adopt it but aha hoped they would. Focus on autonomy: tell patient options for treatment, safeguard their privacy, allowing them to accept or refuse consent. Responsibility of the patient to disclose any past medical information. In order for patients to make informed decisions, they need to be given the truth. Now, violations of truthtelling are normally because of poor communication (physician"s accountability questioned when given unrealistic medical hopes, denial or deception) Also, 14% of american are illiterate, 55% are functionally illiterate. Those who are illiterate are 2 times more likely to have died than those with adequate health literacy. Language barriers also make it hard for ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)ia(cid:374)"s orders to be understood. Hcp"s should assu(cid:373)e all patie(cid:374)ts ha(cid:448)e a li(cid:373)ited u(cid:374)derstanding of medical concepts. In west- individually oriented, in asia autonomy is described in a family-oriented way, family is viewed as an autonomous unit, everyone suffers and flourishes together.
