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Common medical ethical issues faced by healthcare professionals in KSA

OBJECTIVE: There are growing concerns about ethical issues in the healthcare system. This study was conducted to determine the nature of common ethical issues faced by healthcare providers in a tertiary-care hospital in KSA. METHOD: This cross-sectional study comprised a self-administered questionna...

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Autores principales: AbuAbah, Faisal, Alwan, Abdulaziz, Al-Jahdali, Yassar, Al Shaikh, Adnan, Alharbi, Abdullah, AL-Jahdali, Hamdan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taibah University 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31728138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2019.09.001
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author AbuAbah, Faisal
Alwan, Abdulaziz
Al-Jahdali, Yassar
Al Shaikh, Adnan
Alharbi, Abdullah
AL-Jahdali, Hamdan
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Alwan, Abdulaziz
Al-Jahdali, Yassar
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description OBJECTIVE: There are growing concerns about ethical issues in the healthcare system. This study was conducted to determine the nature of common ethical issues faced by healthcare providers in a tertiary-care hospital in KSA. METHOD: This cross-sectional study comprised a self-administered questionnaire given to the physicians working at King Abdulaziz Medical City Hospital-Riyadh, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (KAMC-RD, MNGHA). We used a convenience sampling technique during symposia and conferences. RESULTS: We distributed 240 questionnaires amongst the physicians and recorded a response rate of 80%; 68% (136) of the respondents were men, while 82.5% were Saudis. The mean age of the group was 34.08 ± 10.43 years. Only 69% (138) of the physicians had ever received any formal teaching in bioethics. Most physicians (77.5%) demanded clear guidelines to help them to take appropriate ethical decisions on therapeutic futility, whereas 54% felt that they sometimes overtreat their patients. CONCLUSION: This study reported a lack of knowledge in certain healthcare-related ethical issues in a significant proportion of the physicians. There is a need for a standard educational agenda for medical ethics for healthcare providers, not only during medical school but also after graduation and during clinical rounds.
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spelling pubmed-68389962019-11-14 Common medical ethical issues faced by healthcare professionals in KSA AbuAbah, Faisal Alwan, Abdulaziz Al-Jahdali, Yassar Al Shaikh, Adnan Alharbi, Abdullah AL-Jahdali, Hamdan J Taibah Univ Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: There are growing concerns about ethical issues in the healthcare system. This study was conducted to determine the nature of common ethical issues faced by healthcare providers in a tertiary-care hospital in KSA. METHOD: This cross-sectional study comprised a self-administered questionnaire given to the physicians working at King Abdulaziz Medical City Hospital-Riyadh, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (KAMC-RD, MNGHA). We used a convenience sampling technique during symposia and conferences. RESULTS: We distributed 240 questionnaires amongst the physicians and recorded a response rate of 80%; 68% (136) of the respondents were men, while 82.5% were Saudis. The mean age of the group was 34.08 ± 10.43 years. Only 69% (138) of the physicians had ever received any formal teaching in bioethics. Most physicians (77.5%) demanded clear guidelines to help them to take appropriate ethical decisions on therapeutic futility, whereas 54% felt that they sometimes overtreat their patients. CONCLUSION: This study reported a lack of knowledge in certain healthcare-related ethical issues in a significant proportion of the physicians. There is a need for a standard educational agenda for medical ethics for healthcare providers, not only during medical school but also after graduation and during clinical rounds. Taibah University 2019-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6838996/ /pubmed/31728138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2019.09.001 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Alharbi, Abdullah
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6838996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31728138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2019.09.001
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