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Table 5 Dissatisfaction items ranked by importance to respondents

From: Patients’ perceptions of healthcare professionalism—a Romanian experience

Percent

Item

66.3

12. You are restricted by tubes or perfusions

66.2

11. You do not know how long you will be staying in intensive care

66.1

13. You are thirsty or hungry

64.4

30. Your consent for treatment was not asked for

49.1

2. Members of the medical staff do not introduce themselves

47.1

15. You feel that nurses focus more on the devices than on you

47.1

16. You hear the sounds and alarms from medical devices and they bother you

47.1

17. The doctors and nurses talk too loudly (noise in the department)

45.2

27. You cannot communicate

45.2

28. You are afraid of death

45.2

29. You are afraid of transmissible diseases

45.1

24. You have no privacy

45.1

25. You are cared for by unknown doctors

45

3. You do not know when you are scheduled for certain procedures

45

7. The medical staff uses words you do not understand

45

20. You are disturbed by nurses/doctors when sleeping

45

21. You cannot sleep

45

22. The light is on all the time

45

23. You are experiencing pain

44.8

4. You are aware of the smells around you

44.8

8. The temperature in the room you are hospitalized in is too low or too high

44.7

5. You are in a mixed ward (men and women)

44.7

6. You are seen as an object

44.7

9. You are disturbed by the reactions of the patients around you

40

1. The procedures and the treatments applied are not explained to you

31.3

18. You have tubes in your nose or mouth

31.2

19. You feel disoriented