title: [The rights of health users in cases of hospital infection].
abstract: The study aimed ar apprehending the social representations of the health users in case of hospital infection. Exploratory research with 28 health and law professionals and of a public hospital of Teresina-PI. The data were produced through the interviews and processed by the software Alceste 4.8. The hierarchical descendent analysis showed 4 classes of words that sized up a conflict between the proposals of the program of infection control and the practicing of health professionals, seeing that negligencing the psychological aspects and direct the focus of the attention to economical, biological and epidemiological aspects, with much attention to the rights that the health users have to be waited on the hospitals without running risk of acquiring a hospital infection.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN.
authors.forename: Cristina Maria Miranda
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Sousa
authors.forename: Maria do Socorro da Costa Feitosa
authors.initials: Mdo S
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: Maria Eliete Batista
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Moura
authors.forename: Antonia Oliveira
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans