Responsabilidade civil e criminal do atendimento odontologico ao paciente HIV soropositivo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

The knowledge of a great urban population of Dentists involved in civil and criminal policies in HIV serum-positive dentistry procedures was investigated in this study. AIOS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a Pandemic disease causing clinic fault in immunologic system that predisposes the patient to opportunistic infection. It appears just on human rights era, and helped change our conception about discrimination. One of the consequences were the modification between Physicians and Patients relationship. Since 1981, has increased the number of laws that treat serum-positive rights, currently patient s privacy and biologic insurance are the main policies of civil and criminal responsibilities. The Author carried out an investigation with 203 Dentists in Belo Horizonte City, where 64,03% was woman and 35,97% man, 52,70% was graduated in state University and 47,30% in private one, 30,04% was graduated from 1 to 5 years, 25,12% was graduated from 6 to 10 years, 44,84% was graduated from 11 years and more, 56,15% was generalist, 17,73% was specialist in some surgical area and 26,12% were specialist in non surgical area. Some aspects like diagnostic, professional secret, legal worker s rights, legal civil and criminal responsibilities, biologic insurance, and local work conditions were researched. The Qui-Square Test, Fisher Exact Test, Likelihood Ratio Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test and Wilcoxon Test were used for statistic analysis, and the results showed 36,09% media rate of rights answers, and none of the sample groups presented sufficient knowledge of civil and criminal responsibilities. Concerning biologic insurance, none of the groups used more than 80% of insurance items, and the public service used fewer items than private service. This aspects that presented deficiency of knowledge were used as a guide to made informative manual, managed to ali professionals that want to actualize themselves

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aids (doença) odontologia legal responsabilidade (direito) cuidados com os doentes

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