An epidemiological cross-sectional study of the knowledge of the clinicians on surgical ethics of informed consent in emergency patients.
This was an epidemiological cross-sectional study on the knowledge of the clinicians on the surgical ethics especially the informed consent among the surgically emergency patients in the various units of the General Surgery Department, Chittagong Medical Hospital, Bangladesh which revealed that the majority of the graduate clinicians (42.6%) found to have only some hazy ideas about informed consent whereas in case of post graduate clinicians only 50% were found to have the satisfactory ideas about this, but in general the only 6.3% clinicians were found to have excellent and perfect ideas in this relation. A majority group (15.9%) was found who had no satisfactory answer followed by 14.3% had none of any specific preferable nature of informed consent. About 46.9% of the graduate and 28.6% post graduate clinicians were found to have no idea about Nuremberg Code, IRB or NMRC. A terrific picture, wasn't it 98 Graduate and 28 post graduate clinicians were included in this study (Tab. 6, Fig. 4, Ref. 38). Full Text (Free, PDF) www.bmj.sk.
Faruquzzaman
Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh. faruquz@yahoo.com
D001459:Bangladesh; D004630:Emergencies; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D013502:General Surgery / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics*