ETHICAL ASPECTS PRESENT IN THE CONTEXT OF HOSPITAL PHYSIOTHERAPY: SCOPE REVIEW

Abstract

Bioethics is the part of ethics that focuses on issues relating to human life, consequently also acting on death. Furthermore, bioethics has as its object of study not only human beings, but also the environment. The present review aimed to synthesize existing research and implement its results into practice based on scientific knowledge about the concepts of ethics and bioethics in the context of physiotherapy. The search for articles was carried out on November 24, 2023, where descriptors and correlates found in the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) and descriptors in Health Sciences (DeCS) were used: EthicsClinical, Ethics Professional, Bioethics and Physical Therapy Department Hospital combined with each other using Boolean operators “AND” and “OR”, through an electronic search in the MedLine databases via PubMed, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE), Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), limited to the last 5 years. Studies that did not address the research question, incomplete articles, abstracts, review articles, expert opinions, editorials, books, academic works, dissertations, theses, annals of scientific events, articles not available online and studies carried out on animals were excluded.Out of 957, only 2 were eligible, 137 being duplicates and 818 ineligible. This study concludes that the deficiencies of health professionals in terms of knowledge of ethicsand bioethics in hospital physiotherapy are notorious.