To offer basic data about the influential factors on patient´s Satisfaction level for emergency medical services the authors were performed this study in 60 patients visited to emergency room of third stage general hospital in Taejeon city.
Data were collected through interview with patients by using a 15 items´ questionaire according to care subscale, teaching subscale of Likert´ s five stage quantitative scale and the tools developed by Barbara Davis.
The data were analyzed by using the SPSS/PC computerized program for mean, standard deviation, percentage, ANOVA, ttest, and pearson correlation.
The results are as followings
1. Satisfaction of emergency medical service were showed in care area, but not showed in teaching and total area
2. Satisfaction of sociodemographic characteristics were a statistically significant difference only marriage, that were the higher in marriaged than single(P(0.05).
3. In the emergency situation characteristics the satisfaction accordings to the visit cause were lower in accident than disease group, the reason of hospital selection were in order trust, introduction group, distance, traffic, kinds, and score of satisfaction were showed each of 43.47. 51.27(P<0.01), the transportation vehicle was the 119, hospital ambulance group, but were not a satistically significant difference.
4. The negative correlation was observed between satisfaction and the length of stay at ER and the longer length of stay at ER was showed the lower satisfaction. But the positive correlation was observed between satisfacton and the arrival time, patients who arrived ER from 6:00P.M. to midnight were more satisfied than patients who arrived other time.
5. The length of stay at ER was significantly different according to the reason of hospital selection, the reason of ER selection, the visitant cause and hopital decisioner. Especially the length of stay was much longer in accident group and unconscious group.
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