Emergency Physician n = 98 | Psychiatrist n = 104 | p-Value | |
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Question 1 – Rating of the emergency call “psychiatric emergency" | |||
EM: As an emergency physician, you read the text " Emergency – psychiatric” on your pager. What does that trigger in you? PS: You are informed by your nurse that the emergency physician is on the phone and wants to admit a patient. What does this trigger in you? | |||
Rating of the psychiatric emergency as “meaningless” or as “incorrect diagnosis, made by the EM” | 28 (28.6%) | 44 (42.3%) | 0.1770 |
Feeling of insufficient qualification for psychiatric emergencies | 36 (36.7%) | 12 (11.5%) | 0.0001 |
Anxious about the psychiatric emergency | 3 (19.2%) | 20 (3.1%) | 0.0010 |
Making no difference between psychiatric emergencies and other emergencies | 46 (46.9%) | 59 (56,7%) | 0.6344 |
Question 2 - Reasons for refusal of hospital admission | |||
EM: Have you ever had the problem that you, as an emergency physician, indicated a patient for admission to psychiatry, but the on-site psychiatry department had to decline admission? What was the reason? PS: Have you ever had the problem that you, as a psychiatrist, had to reject an admission when the emergency physician indicated that the patient should be admitted to the psychiatric unit? What was the reason? | |||
Question answered “Yes” | Emergency Physician n = 80 | Psychiatrist n = 85 | |
No capacity | 29 (36.3%) | 20 (23.5%) | 0.1683 |
Intoxication of the patient | 63 (78.8%) | 75 (88.2%) | 0.2005 |
Preclinically applied medication | 43 (53.8%) | 54 (63.5%) | 0.1956 |
Patient not assigned to the hospitals catchment area | 55 (68.8%) | 41 (48.2%) | 0.0865 |