Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show that, between 2009-12, those in health and social work professions experienced the highest rates of work-related anxiety, stress and depression of any field.
Home health care is one of the fastest growing professions, experiencing a projected 56-percent increase in jobs over the last decade.
This provided an opportunity to study the implementation, and a qualitative study focusing on how different professions experienced the implementation was performed.
The phenomenographic approach fits this qualitative study well as it allowed us to capture how participants from different medical professions experienced the introduction of the structured patient-sorting system in different ways, thus forming different conceptions of it.
Age, gender, profession, experience and seat condition did not generally influence the outcome measures.
It is reasonable to assume that the individual's profession, experience and other traits are proxies for his opportunities outside the workplace.
* Adjusted for independent variables: Gender, profession, experience, education, age, and department.
Demographical data; profession, surgical speciality, level of experience in profession, experience in surgical care, gender, year of birth.
In multivariable logistic regression analyses, provider (profession, experience and teaching status of ICU) and knowledge to care gap characteristics (strength of supporting evidence, potential to benefit the patient, potential to improve patient/family experience, and potential to decrease costs) were associated with priorities rated as necessary.
