Table 2.
Reasons for requesting infectious disease consultations among 187 responders and users.
| Senior physicians n = 138 |
Residents n = 49 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potential reason | na | % | na | % |
| Therapeutic recommendation | 128 | (92.8) | 46 | (93.9) |
| Quality of care improvement | 101 | (73.2) | 36 | (73.5) |
| Rapidity of access | 84 | (60.9) | 30 | (61.2) |
| Diagnostic recommendation | 83 | (60.1) | 30 | (61.2) |
| Update knowledge | 80 | (58.0) | 31 | (63.3) |
| Preventive recommendation | 50 | (36.2) | 15 | (30.6) |
| Share responsibility of care | 43 | (31.2) | 15 | (30.6) |
| Transfer a patient to infectious care unit | 29 | (21.0) | 9 | (18.4) |
| Share stress related to care | 24 | (17.4) | 8 | (16.3) |
a n represents the number of physicians who agreed with the prespecified reason