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Senior house officer withdrawals from hospital posts: a questionnaire survey.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
To assess the nature and number of unexpected withdrawal by senior house officers (SHOs) after acceptance of a hospital post at interview, and to investigate the reasons and possible solutions.
DESIGN:
Postal questionnaire based study.
SUBJECTS:
Medical staffing departments, accident and emergency (A&E) consultants, and withdrawing SHOs in England.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:
Unexpected withdrawals by hospital specialty, three year trend in A&E departments, notice and reasons given, and action taken.
RESULTS:
39% of medical staffing departments reported unexpected withdrawals in a broad spectrum of specialties for February 1998. In the specialty of A&E medicine this occurred in 34% of departments. Overall 72% of A&E departments had experienced this problem over a three year period, and the trend is increasing. The majority of A&E consultants (70%) took no action, and there was a lack of consensus among all respondents on the appropriate course of action to prevent this escalating problem.
CONCLUSIONS:
Unexpected SHO withdrawal is a substantial issue in hospital medicine and has been increasing in A&E medicine. Measures to prevent this national problem are urgently needed.
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Author information
Author/s: Vickery, D S (DS); Bodiwala, G G (GG);
Affiliation: Department of Accident and emergency Medicine, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester, UK. davidvickery@yahoo.com
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (Emerg Med J), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jul; vol 19 (issue 4) : pp 308-10
Dates: Created 2002/07/08; Completed 2002/09/27; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12101137, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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