NBC Hospital, Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command Medical Department, Israel.
Disasters. 2010 Jul;34(3):637-43. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01161.x. Epub 2010 Feb 19.
Little is known about the factors that may impact on the willingness of physicians and nurses to treat patients during a bioterrorism attack. This survey was conducted among 76 randomly selected nurses and physicians in the emergency rooms of three public hospitals in order to analyse the relationship between knowledge, profession and the willingness to treat anthrax. The study finds that the willingness of physicians and nurses to come to work is 50% greater among the group with the highest knowledge about anthrax (P < 0.0001). Within that group, the willingness to treat patients suspected of being infected with anthrax was 37% greater (P < 0.0001) and the willingness to treat patients diagnosed with anthrax was 28% greater (P = 0.004) than in the other groups. These results imply that enhancement of knowledge among health care workers may improve their willingness to come to work and treat patients infected with anthrax during a bioterrorism attack.
关于可能影响医生和护士在生物恐怖袭击期间治疗患者意愿的因素知之甚少。这项调查是在三家公立医院急诊室的 76 名随机选择的护士和医生中进行的，目的是分析知识、职业与炭疽治疗意愿之间的关系。研究发现，在炭疽知识最高的组中，医生和护士来上班的意愿高出 50%（P < 0.0001）。在该组中，治疗疑似感染炭疽的患者的意愿高出 37%（P < 0.0001），治疗确诊炭疽的患者的意愿高出 28%（P = 0.004）。这些结果表明，提高医护人员的知识水平可能会提高他们在生物恐怖袭击期间来上班和治疗炭疽感染患者的意愿。
