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Table 1 Results for Questions 1 and 2

From: Emergency medical care of patients with psychiatric disorders -  challenges and opportunities: Results of a multicenter survey

 

Emergency Physician

n = 98

Psychiatrist

n = 104

p-Value

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

  1. Table 1 summarizes the results of the questions one and two (see Supplement). The questions from the questionnaires are shown as examples before the summarized response items of each question. The responses of emergency physicians and psychiatrists are presented in absolute values as well as percentages. Statistical differences were calculated by means of pairwise chi-square tests. EM = Emergency Physician, PS = Psychiatrist