Attitudes of hospital medical practitioners to the mandatory reporting of professional misconduct

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1227, 2005, Pages

  Raniga, Sumit ^a   Hider, Phil ^a   Spriggs, David ^b   Ardagh, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LAW; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL STAFF; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURGEON; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ADDICTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PREJUDICE; PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 29844437916     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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