Table 2.

Factors associated with medical litigation among Sudanese doctors working in obstetrics and gynaecology, 2015

Variables	Experienced litigation (N = 32)	Didn’t experience litigation (N = 85)	P
Area of work, teaching hospital	28 (87.5)	77 (90.6)	0.357
Hospital protocol, yes	16 (56.2)	50 (58.8)	0.454
High risk committee, yes	14 (43.8)	39 (45.9)	0.481
Hospital auditing system, yes	21 (65.6)	64 (75.2)	0.179
Area of blame culture, yes	29 (90.6)	48 (56.5)	0.000
Hospital ethical committee, yes	13 (40.6)	33 (38.8)	0.529
Informed consent, always	19 (59.4)	53 (62.3)	0.917
High risk consent, always	13 (40.6)	51 (60.0)	0.067

Data are shown as number (%) as applicable