Patients' perception and actual practice of informed consent, privacy and confidentiality in general medical outpatient departments of two tertiary care hospitals of Lahore

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Humayun, Ayesha ^a   Fatima, Noor ^a   Naqqash, Shahid ^a   Hussain, Salwa ^a   Rasheed, Almas ^a   Imtiaz, Huma ^a   Imam, Sardar Zakariya ^a  

^a FMH College of Medicine and Dentistry   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTPATIENT; PRIVACY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; AMBULATORY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHICS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHICS, CLINICAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATIENTS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 53649095905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-9-14     Document Type: Article

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