Patients' perception and actual practice of informed consent, privacy and confidentiality in general medical outpatient departments of two tertiary care hospitals of Lahore

BMC Medical Ethics

Table 4 comparison of the patients' perception, with the actual adherence/non-adherence to ethical principles in the public hospital as observed by our trained data collector*

Actual adherence to ethical principles as concluded by data collector	Overall patient perception of observance of ethical principles by doctors
	Observed	Not Observed	Total
Observed	47	18	65
Not observed	20	8	28
Total	67	26	93