Ali Ibne Abi taleb Hospital

The information should be acceptably and adequately provided to the patient.

2-1) The content of the information should include the following:
2-1-1) The contents of the charter of patient rights at the time of admission;
2-1-2) Predictable hospital regulations and fees, including medical and non-medical services, insurance policies and the introduction of supportive systems at the time of admission;
2-1-3) The name, responsibility and professional rank of the members of the medical team who are responsible for providing care, including doctor, nurse and student, and their professional relationship with each other;
2-1-4) Diagnostic and therapeutic methods and the strengths and weaknesses of each method and its possible complications, the diagnosis, prognosis and complications of the disease, as well as all the information affecting the patient's decision-making process;
2-1-5) How to access to the attending doctor and the main members of the medical team during treatment;
2-1-6) All of the research activities;
2-2) Providing information should be as follows:
2-2-1) The information should be provided at the appropriate time and proportional to the patient's circumstances, including anxiety and pain, and his personal characteristics, including language, education, and comprehension power, unless:
•    the delay in the initiation of treatment due to providing the information cause harm to the patient. (In this case, the information should be provided at the earliest appropriate time after performing the necessary actions);
•    despite the patient’s awareness of having the right to receive information, he/she refuses to do so, in which case the patient’s preference should be respected unless his/her unawareness exposes him/her or others to serious risk;
2-2-2) The patient can access to all of the data entered in his/her medical record and receive a copy of them and request for correction of the errors contained in the record;