Professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology: Affirmation of a definition based on results of a nationally administered survey of pediatric anesthesiologists.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previously published work established the need for a specialty-specific definition of professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology. That work established a composite definition consisting of 11 domains and their component "defining themes" for professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology. As a next step toward assessing generalizability of our single-center findings, we sought to gain input from a national sample of pediatric anesthesiologists.

Aims

The aim of this study was to establish the construct validity of our previously published multidimensional definition of professionalism in pediatric anesthesiology using a nationally representative sample of pediatric anesthesiologists.

Methods

A survey was distributed via snowball sampling to the leaders of ever

SUBMITTER: Lockman JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029412 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature