Open AccessThe perspective of medical staff on improving the integrated communication process – A pilot study
Author(s) -
Mirela Morcov,
Iuliana-Raluca Gheorghe,
Maria Veronica Morcov,
Victor Lorín Purcărea
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of medicine and life
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1844-3117
pISSN - 1844-122X
DOI - 10.25122/jml-2021-0186
Subject(s) - test (biology) , statistical significance , neurorehabilitation , statistical analysis , perspective (graphical) , medicine , psychology , descriptive statistics , nursing , family medicine , medical education , rehabilitation , physical therapy , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , artificial intelligence , computer science , biology
The quality of working relationships among medical team members is influenced by communication, which has a significant impact on patient safety. Our study took place at the Dr. Nicolae Robanescu National Neurorehabilitation Center for Children, Bucharest, between October and December 2019 and included 44 participants that were grouped into three categories: physicians, physical therapists, and nurses (32 women and 12 men), aged between 23 and 53, all of whom were employed in the same unit. A total of 5 questions were used to select data on communication difficulties. The chi-square test used for statistical analysis revealed no significant differences between the professional categories participating in the research (p>0.05). We suggest increasing the group size in a future study to increase the statistical significance.