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Bioethics and interdisciplinarity: patients and companions rights during hospitalization

The main theme of this work is the bioethics applied to the performance of health professionals within a hospital. Its objective is to introduce and discuss aspects of health professionals attitudes towards hospitalized patients and their companions ; also the state of affairs of the hospital institution which damages the ethic aspects on the users treatment. This institution uses the contributions of Science in general, of medical knowledge and of the advancement of technology in order to improve the assistence given to the population that makes use of its services. However it is not always possible to join competent technical advance and humanized assistence. This paper intends too to present and discuss the interdisciplinary implications in the field of bioethics in hospital work.

Children Hospitalization; companion mothers; families in hospital; parent reception


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