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Table 2 Test score per profession category and department

From: Healthcare professionals’ knowledge of the systematic ABCDE approach: a cross-sectional study

 

Mean (SD) score (%)

95%-CI

Overall (n = 240)

80.1 (12.2)

78.6–81.7

Profession category*

 Nurse (n = 149) 1 2

74.9 (10.9)

73.2–76.7

 Nurse practitioner / Physician assistant (n = 9) 3 4

78.1 (7.1)

73.5–82.7

 Resident (n = 37) 1 3

92.3 (7.5)

89.9–94.7

 Medical specialist (n = 45) 2 4

88.0 (8.6)

85.5–90.5

Department **

 Department of Anaesthesiology (n = 31) 5 6

85.3 (10.6)

81.6–89

 Department of Paediatrics (n = 38)

77.8 (13.7)

73.4–82.2

 Emergency department (n = 23) 7 8

85.5 (10.4)

81.3–89.8

 Intensive care unit (n = 80) 6 8 9

77.4 (11.2)

75.0–80.0

 Neonatal intensive care unit (n = 35) 5 7 10

75.9 (12.6)

71.7–80.1

 Paediatric intensive care unit (n = 33) 9 10

85.6 (10.6)

82–89.2

  1. * F(3,236) = 41.75, p < 0.001
  2. ** F(5, 234) = 5.818, p < 0.001
  3. Differences in assessment scores of the ABCDE approach were analysed with one-way ANOVA. Identical superscript numbers indicate significant differences between groups in Tukey post hoc test (p < 0.05)