1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Lucknow
2Statistician cum Assistant Prof, Department of Community Medicine, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Lucknow
3Professor & Head, Department of Community Medicine, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Lucknow
4Scholar, Department of Health Sciences, Rajeev Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka
Online published on 6 January, 2018.
The present study aims to assess knowledge and awareness towards medical negligence among general population visiting a tertiary care hospital in northern Indian region. Negligence is defined as doing something which reasonably competent people not suppose to do or not doing something which reasonably competent persons suppose to do.
Total 384 people from general population were subjected to pre-tested and pre validated questionnaire related to medical negligence after obtaining their informed written consent. Questionnaire contain 10 questions related to medical negligence with responses based on Likert's scale varied from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Responses obtained were tabulated in MS Excel sheet and analyzed via SPSS software
After the analyzing of response of the people (visiting a tertiary care hospital) towards knowledge of medical negligence, the level of knowledge is found to be satisfactory.
Medico-legal awareness, Medical negligence, Cross sectional, Likert's scale
