Characteristics of Patients Choosing Emergency Department (ED) Over Primary Care

non-emergent condition;emergency department;Basic Needs Satisfaction Inventory;School of Health Professions and Studies: Nursing

Ostrander, JamesFlint ;

University of Michigan

关键词: non-emergent condition;    emergency department;    Basic Needs Satisfaction Inventory;    School of Health Professions and Studies: Nursing;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

The purpose of this study was to conduct a pilot study examining the Basic Needs, according to Maslow;;s theory and operational zed with Basic Need Satisfaction Inventory (BNSI), of patients with a family practitioner and medical insurance that visited the ED with a non-emergent condition. The BNSI was administered to subjects (n=21), 57% women (n=12) and 43% men (n=9), in a Midwestern Level II Trauma Center who presented during the data collection period with medical insurance, the family practitioner, and a non-emergent condition. BNSI total score on basis of phoning status was compare with a Mann-Whitney U=38.5 (.62). Fisher;;s Exact Test comparing Gender and Phoning status was = .167 (p=.68). Age, pain scale, and BNSI total score were examined for relationships between variables with Pearson;;s correlation. The small sample size may have contributed to the non-significant findings. The operational definition of ;;non-emergent;; yielded such a small sample size, and might suggest that the ;;abuse;; of the ED with non-urgent conditions reported in the literature may not be as large as suspected.