Knowledge, attitudes and practice of healthcare ethics and law among doctors and nurses in Barbados

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hariharan, Seetharaman ^a   Jonnalagadda, Ramesh ^a   Walrond, Errol ^a   Moseley, Harley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARBADOS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHICS; JURISPRUDENCE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT RIGHT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BARBADOS; CODES OF ETHICS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HELSINKI DECLARATION; HIPPOCRATIC OATH; HUMANS; JURISPRUDENCE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT RIGHTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 33746656687     PISSN: 14726939     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-7-7     Document Type: Article

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