• Qual Health Res · Mar 2001

    When the visit to the emergency department is medically nonurgent: provider ideologies and patient advice.

    • N Guttman, M S Nelson, and D R Zimmerman.
    • Department of Communication, Tel-Aviv University.
    • Qual Health Res. 2001 Mar 1;11(2):161-78.

    AbstractIt is estimated that more than half of pediatric hospital emergency department (ED) visits are medically nonurgent. Anecdotal impressions suggest that ED providers castigate medically nonurgent visits, yet studies on such visits are scarce. This study explored the perspectives of 26 providers working in the EDs of two urban hospitals regarding medically nonurgent pediatric ED visits and advising parents or guardians on appropriate ED use. Three provider ideologies regarding the appropriateness of medically nonurgent ED use were identified and found to be linked to particular communication strategies that providers employed with ED users: restrictive, pragmatic, and all-inclusive. The analysis resulted in the development of a typology of provider ideological orientations toward ED use, distinguished according to different orientations toward professional dominance.

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