只需排队:农村和城市在儿童膀超声检查方面的差异
Taylor Washington1, Amy Taylor1, Kathleen Kieran2
1Division of Urology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, Washington.
The Journal of surgical research
|October 12, 2023
概括
农村医院可以更好地获得儿科脏超声波,尽管预约后的等待时间相似. 与城市相比,农村设施的患者更有可能成功安排超声波检查.
科学领域:
- 儿科成像的可访问性
- 在服务不足的地区的医疗保健差异.
- 放射学服务的可用性和可用性.
背景情况:
- 农村和服务不足地区的医疗保健差异越来越令人担忧,可能会因大流行,人员短缺和供应链问题而恶化.
- 了解儿科诊断成像访问的差异对于解决医疗保健不平等至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 量化和比较农村和城市医院环境中儿科脏超声波的可用性.
- 评估在获得基本儿科成像服务方面的潜在差异.
主要方法:
- 确定了全州的医院,并匿名联系放射科,安排儿科脏膀超声波.
- 从接触到第一个可用的预约的时间间隔在农村和城市机构之间进行了比较.
- 分析了安排预约的成功率和在7天内获得预约的可能性.
主要成果:
- 与87.5%的农村医院和51.3%的城市医院取得了成功.
- 一旦联系建立,儿科超声波的中位等待时间相似 (7天农村与6天城市).
- 在农村医院,由于完成电话的可能性更高,患者在7天内成功安排超声波 (2.89次) 的可能性显著增加.
结论:
- 虽然一旦接触,预约时间是可比的,但在城市机构中,安排儿科脏超声波更具挑战性.
- 农村患者在启动和完成儿科脏超声波的调度过程中遇到更大的困难.
- 研究结果强调,需要提高儿科脏超声波服务的安排效率和可访问性,特别是在城市环境中.
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