An electronic questionnaire (
The questionnaire was based on the article by Mintegi et al10 (link) on organisation of paediatric emergency care and was further developed by the MOFICHE research team, consisting of a team of experts with a background in paediatrics, epidemiology, paediatric emergency care, paediatric infectious diseases and health economics. We gathered information on factors influencing case mix as well as resource use.
We focused on local ED quality indicators, regional systems of care and local factors influencing resource use based on Medford-Davis et al1 (link) classification of value-based emergency care.1 (link)
The questionnaire was created with Google Forms. Questions consisted of multiple-choice or multiple-option questions, yes/no questions, 5-point Likert-scale questions and open questions.
All analyses were descriptive and performed with SPSS V.21 software. We analysed the correlation between the different setting characteristics using Pearson correlation coefficient.