ПРИНЦИП ИНФОРМИРОВАННОГО СОГЛАСИЯ В ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ВРАЧА-ОСТЕОПАТА

Галина Львовна Микиртичан; Дмитрий Евгеньевич Мохов; Иван Геннадьевич Юшманов; Александр Зиновьевич Лихтшангоф

Галина Львовна Микиртичан Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, 194100, Saint-Petersburg, Litovskaya str., 2
Дмитрий Евгеньевич Мохов Institute of osteopathy of Saint Petersburg. 191024, Saint Petersburg, Degtyarnaya str., 1 A
Иван Геннадьевич Юшманов Institute of osteopathy of Saint Petersburg. 191024, Saint Petersburg, Degtyarnaya str., 1 A
Александр Зиновьевич Лихтшангоф Saint-Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University, 194100, Saint-Petersburg, Litovskaya str., 2

Keywords: sociologic inquiry, osteopathic physicians, medical ethics, information for patients, the principle of informed consent

Abstract

An anonymous sociologic inquiry of 292 osteopathic physicians from 7 cities of Russia and a similar group of chiropractic physicians (control). There also were interviewed 415 patients who got osteopathic medical help in St. Petersburg. Specificity of osteopathic medicine requires doctor’s particular attention to compliance with ethical standards. However, not all osteopathic physicians exactly follow the principles of medical ethics: only 69.0% provide a patient with full information about his/her disease, only two-thirds of doctors constantly tell their patients about osteopathic method; half of the patients told that doctors did not ask explicitly for their consent to treatment. Mostly osteopathic physicians observe ethical standards more strictly than chiropractic physicians. It seems useful for osteopathic and chiropractic physicians to undergo an extra training on medical ethics.

THE PRINCIPLE OF INFORMED CONSENT IN THE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN’S ACTIVITIES

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