Impact Of Mccd Workshop On Knowledge And Awareness In Post Graduate Residents At A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital
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2019-01
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Sumathi Publications
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Background: Medical Certificate of Cause of Death is a vital document, important scientific tool issued by the doc-tors. It is the physician’s primary responsibility to complete the medical certificate of cause of death correctly. Incor-rect filling up of the certificate will result in gross errors in legal scrutiny in medico-legal deaths. Method:At the beginning the self-designed, pretested questionnaire open ended was distributed to participants, immediately after dis-tribution pre-test was conducted. After the pre-test an interactive workshop was conducted on theMCCD. After the workshop post test was conducted. Result:There was an increase in the knowledge about who issues death certifi-cates, long form of MCCD, who issues death certificate, maximum period within which you have to inform the regis-trar office about death in your clinic/hospital, detent dead body until your bills paid, what matter you are going to write on 1a. column and version present available in medical students from 0% to 61%, 30% to 100 %, 0% to 91 %, 0% to 91 %, 70 % to 96 %, 26 % to 87 % and 39 % to 100 % respectively. Conclusion:In the present study there is an improvement in knowledge and awareness in post graduates students after an interactive workshop on theMCCD.
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Medical Certificate of Cause of Death, Educational intervention, Postgraduate students
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Kadu Sandeep S, Khalkar Atul A. Impact Of Mccd Workshop On Knowledge And Awareness In Post Graduate Residents At A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. International Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Research. 2019 Jan; 5(1): 15-17