DIFFICULTIES ARISING FROM CONSULTATION PROCESS FACED BY EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY
Objective: To discuss the difficulties that emergency physicians face during the consultation.
Materials and Methods: The included physicians were reached by e-mail groups, social media, and one-to-one contact, and electronic questionnaires including 22 questions were filled by the physicians. The questionnaire was designed to be filled anonymously.
Results: Altogether 307 emergency physicians participated in our study. The mean age of the participants was (36.7±7.64) years, among whom 53.1% were males and 46.9% were females. Pulmonary disease (46.6%) were the branches with the highest frequency where the emergency physicians have difficulties in consultations. The majority of the physicians’ problems were concentrated on weekends (76.2%) and between 24:00-08:00 (67.1%). In addition, 73% of emergency physicians had verbal conflict with consulting physicians, and 16.3% had physical conflict.
Conclusions: For the consultation process to be more professional, both requesting and consulting physicians should be educated. In addition, it is possible to minimize problems by increasing mutual communication skills.
Ishaaq Sakwa Eshikumo, Afsin Emre Kayipmaz, Cemil Kavalci*,
Meliha Findik, Murat Muratoglu
Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency, Ankara, Turkey
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Eshikumo I.-S., Kayipmaz A.-E., Kavalci C., Findik M., Muratoglu M. Difficulties arising from consultation process faced by emergency physicians: A cross-sectional study // Nauka i Zdravookhranenie [Science & Healthcare]. 2020, (Vol.22) 5, pp. 68-73. doi 10.34689/SH.2020.22.5.006Похожие публикации:
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