Hannah Hoeben, Sylvia A Obermann-Borst, Mireille A Stelwagen, Anne A M W van Kempen, Johannes B van Goudoever, Sophie R D van der Schoor, Nicole R van Veenendaal
Not a goal, but a given': Neonatal care participation through parents' perspective, a cross-sectional study
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
doctor remains moral enterprise expected make medical decisions based ethical principles encounter patients objective study investigate knowledge application medical ethical principles amongst physician groups hospital enugu nigeria crosssectional selfassessed study conducted amongst medical doctors five specialty groups teaching hospital enugu nigeriadescriptive inferential statistics used summarize items determine whether significant differences knowledge application medical ethics existed amongst physician groups treatment patients observance compliance medical ethical conduct highest among doctors aged 55 years sex male doctors higher ethical conduct compliance female doctors comparing doctors rank medical officers consultants senior registrars respectively highest ethical conduct knowledge practice medical ethics mostly deficient among younger nigerian female doctors remedying situation require better curricula undergraduate postgraduate medical school programmes doctor trainees requiring certification bioethics license renewal also help resolving improving knowledge gap