Number of respondents | |||||||||||||||
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Hospital | Afternoon ward rounds contribute to delayed discharge of patients. | Afternoon ward rounds contribute to reduced communication with relatives. | The junior doctors on this ward could work more efficiently if ward rounds all began promptly at the start of the day. | ||||||||||||
SA | A | DK | D | SD | SA | A | DK | D | SD | SA | A | DK | D | SD | |
A | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
B | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
C | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
D | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
E | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
F | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
G | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
H | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
I | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 9 | 33 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 8 | 19 | 2 | 28 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
% of total | 15.5 | 56.9 | 13.8 | 13.8 | 0.0 | 12.1 | 37.9 | 13.8 | 32.8 | 3.4 | 48.3 | 43.1 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.0 |
Hospital | Afternoon ward rounds detrimentally affect our sense of satisfaction/fulfillment with the job. | The prospect of a lifetime of afternoon ward rounds makes hospital medicine seem less appealing as a career choice. | |||||||||||||
SA | A | DK | D | SD | SA | A | DK | D | SD | ||||||
A | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||||
B | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
C | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
D | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
E | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
F | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
G | 2 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |||||
H | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
I | 5 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Totals | 9 | 26 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 8 | 5 | 1 | |||||
% of total | 15.5 | 44.8 | 17.2 | 22.4 | 0.0 | 37.9 | 39.7 | 13.8 | 8.6 | 1.7 |
Hospital B had no PM ward rounds and therefore no respondents to this question. A = agree; D = disagree; DK = don’t know; SA = strongly agree; SD = strongly disagree.