Perceived professional roles and implications for clinical decision‐making
| Autor: | Carlos Quiñonez, Michael Glogauer, Herenia P. Lawrence, Bonnie Yu, Abdulrahman Ghoneim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Canada
medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Visual analogue scale Clinical Decision-Making Dentists Bivariate analysis Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences Professional Role 0302 clinical medicine Surveys and Questionnaires Health care medicine Humans General Dentistry Practice Patterns Dentists' Response rate (survey) 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health 030206 dentistry Family medicine Scale (social sciences) Professional ethics 0305 other medical science Psychology business Social responsibility |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health Dentistry. 80:43-50 |
| ISSN: | 1752-7325 0022-4006 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVES This study aims to (a) investigate the relationship between dentists' perceived professional role (PPR), defined as the belief that they are health care professionals versus business people, and treatment intensity, determined by the aggressiveness of clinical approaches, such as in number or scope, and (b) identify the demographic and practice characteristics that have a relationship to PPR. METHODS A 46-item survey with questions on dentists' demographic and professional characteristics was mailed to a random sample of 3,201 general dentists in Ontario, Canada. PPR was measured by visual analog scale and by Likert-type scale questions, which have been validated in the literature in terms of their ability to measure PPR. Treatment intensity was measured by a set of case scenarios. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariable analyses were performed. RESULTS One-thousand and seventy-five dentists returned usable surveys (33.6% response rate). When using the two methods to measure PPR, visual analog scale and Likert-type scale questions, dentists who identified as business people tended to have a higher treatment intensity compared to those who identified as health care professionals (p |
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