background and objectives: discharge against medical advice (dama) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. in order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. this study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of dama, and s...

conclusions considering that the most frequent reason for our urvs was patient-related factors, where all cases had left the cpu against medical advice (ama) during their first attendance, we recommend that further appropriate strategies be devised to prevent leaving against medical advice. results patient-related factors accounted for most 72 hours urvs (49%). multivariable analysis revealed t...

background incomplete hospitalization is the cause of disease relapse, readmission, and increase in medical costs. discharge against medical advice (dama) in emergency department (ed) is critical for hospitals. this paper aims to explore the underlying reasons behind dama in ed of four teaching hospitals in kerman, iran.   methods this was a cross-sectional study in which the samples were drawn...

AbstractAim: Fasting against medical advice (FAMA) is a major challenge for many physicians who treat patients with diabetes during the month of Ramadan. The significance of this phenomenon has not been evaluated in Muslim populations. The goal of this study was to assess the rate and consequences of FAMA in our high-risk patients.Methods: This is a retrospective case-control study. Patients we...

abstract background and objective: often, discharge of children against medical advice has a negative effect on the well-being of the patient. to determine the prevalence of discharge against medical advice (dama) among hospitalized children and examine the reasons given by parents/guardians for such discharges. methods: a retrospective 2-year medical records audit of children aged one day to 1...

Gender equality amongst healthcareprofessionals is no doubt paramount to allowboth equal opportunity and provision of goodquality healthcare. The General Medical Councilencourages that all colleagues should be treatedfairly, but studies have previously demonstratedgender bias against female medical students(1). Whether this might have any impact on thestudents’ decision-making process and caree...