Collegium antropologicum
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Doctor's oath to secrecy is in the basics of patient's trust to doctor, which is a prerequisite of successful medical treatment. The authors tried to find the answers to following questions: a) what is the attitude of psychiatric patients, people who ask for psychiatric help, towards revealing facts about their psychical problems, b) how well are they informed about doctor's oath to secrecy and to what extent does their willingness reach in asking compensation on the court in case their secret was revealed, c) what is the frequency of the so called "institutionalized" revealing of secrets. The research was performed on the sample of 100 male psychiatric patients hospitalized at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and additional 100 persons who asked for help using phone service of Center for crisis conditions at the same clinic. ⋯ About the half of the patients are informed about doctor's oath to secrecy (42%), but almost all of them (39% of cases in our total sample) consider it normal that the information about their illness is given to some institution outside their family. Persons that ask for help by phone want to remain anonymous in 43% of cases, and in almost same percentage (41%) they believe that their secrecy is guaranteed. In the concluding paragraphs, the need for constant consideration and actualization of problem of doctor's oath to secrecy in the complex situation of global social and medical progress is stressed.
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Collegium antropologicum · Jun 1997
Scientometric analysis of anthropology in the Republic of Croatia for the period of 1980-1996.
Anthropologists from the Republic of Croatia have published 254 scientific papers in the period from 1980-1996, that are included in the secondary publication Social Science Citation Index. Scientists working in the scientific subfield anthropology participate with approximately 2% in the overall scientific output of the Republic of Croatia. Thirty-six international articles were published (14.2% of the total number), while the rest of 218 papers were published solely by domestic authors. ⋯ In the first five years after publishing, 166 articles (65.4% of the total number) were not cited, while the world's average for the scientific subfield anthropology was greater, 79.5% uncited articles. Only 19.4% of international papers and 72.9% of domestic papers were not cited in this five-year period. Based on scientometric indicators of a scientific output, that is, the number of published papers, partial scientific contribution, i.e., partial authorship, and scientific influence, i.e. number of citations, a method for the evaluation of scientific papers and their authors has been suggested in this paper.