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Table 5 Perspectives of physicians on co-location

From: Co-location of out of hours primary care and emergency department in Belgium: patients’ and physicians’ view

 

Rather agree n (%)

Rather not agree n (%)

Perspective

ED 40 (8)

GP 320 (66)

GPres 77 (16)

EDres 35 (7)

ED 40 (8)

GP 320 (66)

GPres 77 (16)

EDres 35 (7)

Decrease in workload

27 (68)

254 (79)

66 (86)

29 (83)

11 (28)

57 (18)

3 (4)

4 (11)

Improvement of care quality

34 (85)

224 (70)

56 (73)

30 (86)

4 (10

67 (21)

9 (12)

1 (3)

Decrease in time to treatment

37 (93)

251 (78)

62 (81)

31 (89)

1 (3)

59 (18)

7 (9)

2 (6)

Increase in patient satisfaction

30 (75)

217 (68)

54 (70)

27 (77)

7 (18)

80 (25)

12 (16)

5 (14) 217 (68)

Use of ED infrastructure by GP

20 (50)

200 (63)

57 (74)

20 (57)

18 (45)

100 (31

9 (12)

12 (34

GP competent technical ex.

26 (65)

NA

NA

23 (66)

12 (30)

NA

NA

8 (23)

GP interpretation technical ex.

NA

225 (70%)

48 (62)

NA

NA

72 (22)

16 (20)

NA

Meer technical ex.

5 (13)

79 (25)

12 (16)

4 (11)

33 (83)

219 (68)

53 (69)

28 (80)

Independency of services

25 (63)

238 (74)

57 (74)

18 (51)

13 (33)

60 (19)

13 (33)

13 (37)

Higher cost effectiveness

29 (73)

227 (71)

54 (70)

28 (80)

8 (20)

72 (23)

12 (16)

4 (11)

Multi-disciplinary consult

34 (85)

277 (87)

59 (77)

31 (89)

2 (5)

24 (8)

7 (9)

1 (3)

 

ED 40 (8)

GP 320 (66)

GPres 77 (16)

EDres 35 (7)

Pre-triage

 Other

1 (3)

10 (3)

2 (3)

3 (9)

 GP

4 (10)

43 (13)

6 (8)

4 (11)

 Trained personnel

8 (20)

148 (46)

27 (35)

9 (26)

 ED physician

6 (15)

6 (2)

0

1 (3)

 ED nurse

18 (45)

33 (10)

20 (26)

10 (29)

 

ED 40 (8)

GP 320 (66)

GPres 77 (16)

EDres 35 (7)

Opening hours

 24/7

10 (29)

13 (4)

4 (5)

20 (50)

 Other

2 (6)

21 (7)

  

 Only out of hours

17 (49)

154 (48)

38 (49)

16 (40)

 From 6 pm till midnight

1 (3)

11 (3)

2 (3)

1 (3)

 Only Weekend

1 (3)

96 (30)

20 (26)

1 (3)

Committed to work in co-locatio

 Part time

NA

15 (5)

8 (10)

NA

 Only duty hours

NA

215 (67)

49 (64)

NA

 Fulltime

NA

3 (1)

5 (6)

NA

 No

NA

65 (20)

2 (3)

NA

  1. Legend: Only fully completed records