Ward round competences in surgery and psychiatry - a comparative multidisciplinary interview study

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Table 4 Frequency analysis of literature-based competences in the entire interview and in the open-ended questions about the ward round process (procedural part)

Competences	Mentioned by % of the interviewees
	Entire Interview	Procedural Part
	Surgery - Psychiatry	Surgery - Psychiatry
Collaborative clinical reasoning	100–100	90–93
Communication clinician - patient	100–100	70–83
Communication clinician - team	100–100	83–93
Organization	100–100	57–57
Teamwork	100–100	37–30
Management of difficult situations	100–100	0–3
Self-management	100–100	3–10
Error-management	100–97	0–0
Teaching	97–100	3–0
Empathy	93–100	0–0
Nonverbal communication clinician - patient	70–93^a	0–0

Frequency analysis of interviews with medical ward staff (N surgery = 30, N psychiatry = 30) of the specialities surgery and psychiatry
The majority of interviewees of both specialities commented the competences which were identified by literature and asked about in the interviews (first column)
The interviewees described particular competences when answering open-ended questions about the ward round process at the beginning of the interview (second column, procedural part)
^aIndicates statistically significant differences between surgery and psychiatry: p = .045

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