ArticleInternational journal of general medicine2021
Medical Students' Knowledge of the Cause-of-Death Certification: A Descriptive, Cross-Sectional Study from Saudi Arabia.
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- Challenges facing physicians in death certification of under-five mortality in Egypt.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Knowledge and attitudes of medical students toward death: a cross-sectional comparative study between an Arab and a Western University.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe medical certificate of cause-of-death is an important document of medicolegal significance. Errors in the completion of the death certificate by doctors are not uncommon. Therefore, it is important for medical students, the future doctors, to be trained in completing the medical certificate of cause-of-death. This study aimed to investigate the understanding of final-year medical students of the cause-of-death certification and to assess their ability to complete the cause-of-death statement. MATERIAL AND
methodsThe final-year medical students of Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, of the academic year 2020-21 formed the cohort of medical students that participated in the current descriptive, cross-sectional study wherein a self-administered online questionnaire was used.
resultsA total of 174 students provided complete responses. The immediate cause of death in the given case scenario was answered correctly by 107 (61.5%) of the students. The underlying cause of death was answered correctly by only 20 (11.5%) students. It was apparent that the chain of events leading to death in the given case scenario was wrongly understood by the majority of the students. Nonetheless, the other significant condition contributing to death was answered correctly by 151 (86.8%) students. Other errors included the use of abbreviations, mention of the mechanism of death as a cause of death, mention of clinical features or irrelevant causes of death and mention of the incorrect time interval between the onset of a cause of death and death.
conclusionThe current study found that the overall performance of final-year medical students was reasonably good except for the fact that most misunderstood the underlying cause of death in the given case scenario. The majority of the students had attended a tutorial on medical certification of cause-of-death before participating in the current study, which suggests that continuous training might be required.
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