Baseline Characteristics and Status of Hospital Legal Construction
Most of the enrolled medical workers worked in public hospitals (36,122/38,053, 94.93%), general hospitals (24,189/38,053, 63.57%), and class A tertiary hospitals (21,642/38,053, 56.87%; Table S1 in Regarding the participants’ knowledge of medical law, most medical workers reported that they had a very clear or clear understanding of the hospital president responsibility system, the duties of the hospital law department, the duties of the legal counselor in the hospital, and the contents of hospital charters. Of the medical workers, 70.48% (26,819/38,053) believed that hospital legal construction was very helpful to their medical work, and 69.27% (26,360/38,053) expressed a strong willingness to participate in the law training organized by the hospital. However, 75.83% (28,857/38,053) of medical workers still considered it very necessary to conduct legal training in their respective hospitals.These results indicate that although most hospitals had implemented the hospital rule of law construction, the effectiveness of these efforts was not entirely satisfactory because some participants (17.85%, 6791/38,053) had never received any legal training and a substantial number of participants (96.99%, 36,906/38,053). This might partly explain why medical disputes occurred in up to 46.06% (17,527/38,053) of the enrolled medical workers.