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Emergency department patients' perception of care: do doctors understand their patients?

Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-55). / The aim of my study is to directly compare the patient’s perceptions of care received in the emergency department to that of the attending physician’s. The aim is to give us better insight into how the patient experiences their care, with a view to improving the level of care offered. The study elucidates the emphasis a patient places on aspects of their care such as empathy, communication, waiting times, etc. The study was conducted at GF Jooste Emergency Department over a period of eight weeks. Patients voluntarily, and with full anonymity, filled in a short questionnaire. The attending physician did the same. Questionnaires were collected and data fed into a database, analyzed and the results interpreted.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/11526
Date January 2011
CreatorsMahomed, Zeyn
ContributorsWallis, Lee A
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Emergency Medicine
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MMed
Formatapplication/pdf

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