Geographic and Specialty-Specific Disparities in Physicians' Legal Compliance: A National-Scale Assessment of Romanian Medical Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physicians must respect their patients' rights to informed consent, privacy, access to medical records, non-discrimination, treatment by a qualified doctor, and a second medical opinion. Compliance with patients' rights is mandatory, and legal breaches are considered medical malpractice under Romanian law. This is the first study to assess physicians' practices nationally and create a geographical map of legal compliance.

Results

We examined survey responses of 2978 physicians, including 1587 general practitioners and 1391 attending physicians from high-risk specialties. According to the findings, 46.67% of physicians' practices adhered to the law. Physicians' practices were homogenous across the country's regions. General practitioners were significantly more leg

SUBMITTER: Nanu CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9957268 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature