A Survey-Based Needs Assessment of Barriers to Optimal Sickle Cell Disease Care in the Emergency Department.
A Survey-Based Needs Assessment of Barriers to Optimal Sickle Cell Disease Care in the Emergency Department.
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DOI:
10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.08.013
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发表时间:
2020-09
影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium
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作者:
Linton EA;Goodin DA;Hankins JS;Kanter J;Preiss L;Simon J;Souffront K;Tanabe P;Gibson R;Hsu LL;King A;Richardsona LD;Glassberg JA;Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium
Guided by an implementation science framework, this needs assessment identifies institutional, provider, and patient-level barriers to care of Sick Cell Disease (SCD) in the Emergency Department (ED) to inform future interventions conducted by the multi-center Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium (SCDIC). The SCDIC developed and implemented a validated needs assessment survey administered to a cross-sectional convenience sample of patients with SCD and ED providers caring for them. In total, 516 adolescents and adults with SCD and 243 ED providers from seven and five regions of the US, respectively, responded to the ED care delivery for SCD survey. Survey results demonstrated that 84.5% of respondents with SCD have an outpatient provider who treats many patients with SCD. In the ED, 54.3% reported not getting care fast enough and 46.0% believed physicians did not care about them and similarly of nurses (34.9%). Consequently, 48.6% were “never” or “sometimes” satisfied with their ED care. Of surveyed ED providers, 75.1% were unaware of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recommendations for vaso-occlusive crises, yet 98.1% were confident in their knowledge to care for patients with SCD. ED providers identified the following factors as barriers to care administration: “opioid epidemic” (62.1%), “patient behavior” (60.9%), “overcrowding” (58.0%), “concern about addiction” (47.3%) and “implicit bias” (37.0%). The results underscore that many patients with SCD are dissatisfied with their ED care and highlight challenges to optimal care on the practice, provider and patient levels. Exploring these differences may facilitate improvements in ED care.