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Table 3 Overall mean of perception and interest in FUEDs issues and related interventions

From: Health care providers’ perception of the frequent emergency department user issue and of targeted case management interventions: a cross-sectional national survey in Switzerland

Response variables

Overall mean

Est.

SE

z/t-value

Est. Df

P-value

Question: How often have you been confronted with FUEDs over the past 2 years? Probability of being confronted with FUEDs every week or day (Awareness of FUEDs)

0.59

0.37

0.18

2.13

–

0.033

Question: How important is the FUEDs problem in your hospital? Probability of FUEDs being an issue in the ED (Perception of FUEDs)

0.67

0.73

0.21

3.52

–

< 0.001

Question: How do you evaluate your level of knowledge on the FUEDs issue? Perceived knowledge of FUEDs from not at all (−2) to very familiar (2)

−0.32

−0.32

0.09

−3.57

43.96

< 0.001

Question: How do you evaluate your level of knowledge on CM interventions? Perceived knowledge of CM from not at all (− 2) to very familiar (2)

− 0.76

−0.76

0.09

−8.67

37.96

< 0.001

Question: In your opinion, what are the characteristics of FUEDs? From totally disagree (−5) to totally agree (5) (Understanding of FUEDs)

1.36

1.36

0.08

16.74

56.59

< 0.001

Question: Which of these interventions do you know? How many interventions are known (from 0 to 5) (Knowledge of FUEDs interventions)

1.77

0.57

0.16

3.45

–

< 0.001

Question: Which of these interventions do you know? Probability of knowing at least one intervention (Knowledge of FUEDs interventions)

0.21

1.29

0.22

5.89

–

< 0.001

Question: To what extent do you think an intervention would be useful in your hospital? Perceived usefulness of interventions from not useful at all (−5) to extremely useful (5)

1.14

1.14

0.13

8.83

194.00

< 0.001

Question: To what extent do you think a CM intervention targeting FUEDs would be useful in your department? Perceived usefulness of CM from totally disagree (−2) to totally agree (2)

1.29

1.29

0.08

16.89

42.21

< 0.001

Question: To what extent would you be interested in supporting/participating in implementing a case management intervention? Interest in CM implementation from a full disinterest (−5) and a full interest (5)

0.10

0.10

0.19

0.50

190.00

0.615

  1. Overall mean: transformed estimate of the statistical model intercept when necessary; Est estimate of the model intercept, SE standard error of the model intercept, z/t-value z-value for Count distribution (Binomial or Poisson distribution) or t-value for Normal distribution, Est. Df estimated number of freedom degree for general linear mixed models (Normal distribution); P-value: statistically significant different from by chance (probability of 0.50) for Binomial distribution or zero for Normal distribution. In bold are highlighted the estimates that are statistically significant
  2. The estimation of intercept was done under the restricted maximum likelihood with GLMMs including the three mean effects: health care profession, ED category and linguistic region, all standardized (i.e., of mean zero and variance 1) in order that the (transformed) intercept represent the mean of a balanced sample of physicians and nurses within ED category and within linguistic region referred as the overall mean. The knowledge of FUEDs interventions was analyzed with a zero-inflation Poisson distribution leading to the estimation of two coefficients: the average number of events per interval (for the Poisson distribution) and the probability of extra zeros (p) that can be used to approximate the probability of knowing at least one intervention (1-p)
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BMC Emergency Medicine

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