Table 4.
Subgroup analysis based on academic degrees of responders regarding prevalence and management of medical emergencies during their dental practice.
| Questions | Answers (grouped according to respondent degree) |
p-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (with and without specialty or aptitude test) | Dentistry (with and without further dental specialty) | ||
| How many medical emergencies have you encountered in your professional practice? | |||
| Total, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| None, n (%) | 451 (24.5) | 1924 (38.6) | <0.01 |
| <5, n (%) | 1008 (54.8) | 2578 (51.8) | |
| ≥5, n (%) | 381 (20.7) | 476 (9.6) | |
| Did you have any medical emergency in the past 2 years? | |||
| Total, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Yes, n (%) | 318 (17.3) | 1135 (22.8) | <0.01 |
| No, n (%) | 1522 (82.7) | 3843 (77.2) | |
Legend: * Fisher's exact test.