Table 4

Responses to the open ended questions.


Response category
Proportion
95% confidence interval

QuestionA: Did you have any other concerns, related to your emergency, that you felt was not addressed by our personnel?
No answer
33.7
(30.6 – 37.0)

No concerns
63.0
(59.6 – 66.2)

Some concerns
3.3
(2.2 – 4.8)

Question B: Please tell us the single most important action we took that made you fell better.
No answer
22.8
(20.1 – 25.8)

Interpersonal communication
42.3
(38.9 – 45.7)

Response time
21.2
(18.5 – 24.1)

Technical actions
10.4
(8.5 – 12.7)

Other actions
3.3
(2.2 – 4.8)

Question C: What could we have done differently that might have made your experience more positive?
No answer
41.0
(37.7 – 44.4)

Nothing
52.8
(49.3 – 56.1)

Something
6.2
(4.7 – 8.1)

Bernard et al. BMC Emergency Medicine 2007 7:5   doi:10.1186/1471-227X-7-5