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Rostami T, Yaghouti E, Emam S M R. Patients' Rights in the Light of International Documents and the Iranian Legal System. MLJ 2020; 14 :133-145
URL: http://ijmedicallaw.ir/article-1-1182-en.html

In recent years, the concept of "patients' rights" has become one of the most important topics in the literature of writers and lawyers. But despite this importance, there are many gaps in the sources of patients' rights. In the Iranian domestic legal system, there is only the Charter of Patients 'Rights, which specifically addresses the issue of patients' rights. In the present study, which has been collected by descriptive-analytical method and with library tools, it will be observed that the Charter of Patients 'Rights in Iran has many gaps in order to protect and guarantee patients' rights. But this does not mean that no other tool can be found in Iranian domestic law to guarantee patients' rights. Many examples of patients' rights have been considered in the literature of international human rights documents, and these documents and their norms can be applied in the field of domestic law in Iran. Of course, this does not mean meeting all the needs in the field of domestic law, but it is necessary in Iranian domestic law, an independent law on the issue of patients' rights to be designed and approved.

Please cite this article as: Rostami T, Yaghouti E, Emam SMR. Patients' Rights in the Light of International Documents and the Iranian Legal System. Iran J Med Law, Special Issue on Human Rights and Citizenship Rights 2020; 133-145.