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Table 6 Overview of participants’ perceptions of the new ED

From: Implementing a new emergency department: a qualitative study of health professionals’ change responses and perceptions

Perceptions of the new ED

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1. Changing patient pathways

Disagreements on what constitutes the best possible acute patient pathway and whether the planned organization of the new ED would redeem this

2. Changing the physical layout of the ED

Different opinions about the new ED’s location in a newly built wing of the hospital, which poses both potentials and challenges

3. A new medical specialty gaining its foothold

Hopeful and frustrated statements about the newly established medical specialty of EM, which is related to the implementation of the new ED