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Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia
OBJECTIVES: To determine the level of awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners and to identify factors that influence that level of awareness in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2020-2021 via a survey including 750 healthcare...
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Saudi Medical Journal
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9749680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35964962 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.8.20210920 |
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author | Bin Shihah, Abdulelah S. Alrashed, Abdulrahman H. Al-Abduljabbar, Khaled A. Alamri, Hassan A. Shafiq, Mohammed Ahmed, Mayada N. Alkhenizan, Abdullah H. |
author_facet | Bin Shihah, Abdulelah S. Alrashed, Abdulrahman H. Al-Abduljabbar, Khaled A. Alamri, Hassan A. Shafiq, Mohammed Ahmed, Mayada N. Alkhenizan, Abdullah H. |
author_sort | Bin Shihah, Abdulelah S. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To determine the level of awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners and to identify factors that influence that level of awareness in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2020-2021 via a survey including 750 healthcare practitioners, from different specialties including all regions in Saudi Arabia. Participants included consultants, senior registrars, interns, and residents. RESULTS: Majority of enrolled healthcare practitioners had poor awareness of medical law (approximately 97%). Only 1.5% had adequate awareness of medical law, and only 1.5% had moderate awareness. Factors associated with increased medical law awareness were the age group between 25 and 34, being from the central region, and having a clinical practice for less than 10 years p-value of <0.05. CONCLUSION: Awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners is limited in Saudi Arabia. Professional medico-legal education should be part of required competencies for undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medical education. Health care practitioners must be educated with laws and regulations of practicing health professions in the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-97496802023-02-16 Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia Bin Shihah, Abdulelah S. Alrashed, Abdulrahman H. Al-Abduljabbar, Khaled A. Alamri, Hassan A. Shafiq, Mohammed Ahmed, Mayada N. Alkhenizan, Abdullah H. Saudi Med J Original Article OBJECTIVES: To determine the level of awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners and to identify factors that influence that level of awareness in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was carried out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2020-2021 via a survey including 750 healthcare practitioners, from different specialties including all regions in Saudi Arabia. Participants included consultants, senior registrars, interns, and residents. RESULTS: Majority of enrolled healthcare practitioners had poor awareness of medical law (approximately 97%). Only 1.5% had adequate awareness of medical law, and only 1.5% had moderate awareness. Factors associated with increased medical law awareness were the age group between 25 and 34, being from the central region, and having a clinical practice for less than 10 years p-value of <0.05. CONCLUSION: Awareness of medical law among healthcare practitioners is limited in Saudi Arabia. Professional medico-legal education should be part of required competencies for undergraduate and postgraduate levels of medical education. Health care practitioners must be educated with laws and regulations of practicing health professions in the country. Saudi Medical Journal 2022-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9749680/ /pubmed/35964962 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.8.20210920 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Bin Shihah, Abdulelah S. Alrashed, Abdulrahman H. Al-Abduljabbar, Khaled A. Alamri, Hassan A. Shafiq, Mohammed Ahmed, Mayada N. Alkhenizan, Abdullah H. Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title | Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | awareness of medical law among health care practitioners in saudi arabia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9749680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35964962 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.8.20210920 |
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