A STUDY OF THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS,CAPACITY AND CONSENT AMONG EMERGENCY HEALTHCARE WORKERS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN KOLKATA.

Abstract

Introduction: Most patients lack the medical competency to grasp the optimal course of treatment for their health, thus doctors and nurses must constantly assess whether patients can consent to tests and treatments. Patients who refuse to go to the hospital or who do not comprehend what medical activity is benecial to their health frequently require all health care personnel to make these kinds of decisions. Thus, every healthcare provider must be aware of the risk that some of their choices may one day be criticised or reconsidered on the grounds that they neglected to offer critical therapy to a person with limited capacity because they picked an unfavorable treatment route. Patients who have self-harmed refuse medical treatment when it is detected, which is an increasingly concerning trend in today's culture. Consequently, it's vital that medical professionals in tertiary care facilities across the country are well-versed in capacity and consent difculties such as the above metropolises like Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai. To conduct research into emergency healthcare providers' awareness of abi Aim: Materials And Methods: lity and consent. Peerless Hospital researchers interviewed 84 members of the emergency medical services from July to October using a cross-sectional questionnaire (4 months). The B.K. Roy Research Center and Peerless Hospital are both located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. SPSS 24.0 and GraphPad Prism 5 were used to perform statistical analyses on the data imported into Microsoft Excel. Unpaired proportions were compared using Chi-square or Fischer's exact tests, depending on whether statistical signicance was required. We found that association of Q1 vs. group was Results: statistically signicant (p=0.0015). Association of Q2 vs. group was not statistically signicant (p=0.2002). Association of Q3 vs. group was statistically signicant (p=0.0463). We came to the conclusion that the vas Conclusion: t majority of emergency medical technicians lacked statistically meaningful information.