are self-interest attitudes related to professional seniority?
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between professional seniority and self-interest (PSI) attitudes in the resolution of vascular ethical dilemmas (VED). DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SUBJECTS: Vascular surgeons (residents included) from the 28 vascular teaching departments of Spain. Measurements. Multidisciplinary team-designed questionnaire of 5 VED. Each VED had 3 different answers (attitudes): 2 favouring legitimate ethical attitudes (LEA) and 1 favouring PSI. The questionnaire was self-administered and all participants stated their degree of agreement with each answer on a continuous Likert scale. PSI was evaluated by: (1) adding the magnitudes of the 5 answers favouring PSI (absPSI); and (2) by comparing in each case the magnitude of the PSI answer with that of the 2 LEA (relPSI). STATISTICS: Linear regression adjusted by confounding factors. RESULTS: Two hundred and fifty-three vascular surgeons from the 26 participating teaching vascular departments of public hospitals completed
