The association between taking a death certificate course and practical knowledge about death certificate among Saudi medical students
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In Saudi Arabia, family members, general practitioners, morticians, or police officer, who are eligible to request autopsies, refrain from doing so expedite the burial of deceased. Inaccurate entries into medical death certificate facilitate so. The reason for ignoring completion certificates is not fully explored. Yet, incompetence avoiding medicolegal allegations seem be causative factors. this study, we conducted a cross-sectional study on 335 students all years school determine association between taking course and level knowledge about among students. results showed an increase in took compared did not. Among have seen certificates, majority enough number certificates. Cultural mores expected govern their carefulness filling out
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Quality in Sport
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2450-3118']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12775/qs.2022.08.02.008