Professionalism in Anesthesiology; A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
It is necessary to identify unidentified or less- concentrated issues in professionalism and anesthesiology through an extended study. This study is done to identify different dimensions of professionalism in anesthesiology among quantitative and qualitative research.
The present meta-synthesis study is done through a systematic review. The main criteria were to use quantitative and qualitative professionalism studies in which their participants were anesthesiologists. All the published and indexed articles related to professionalism in anesthesiology in PubMed and Google Scholar databases from February 2000 to December 2020 were scrutinized. Search in these databases was done using key words “Professionalism” and “anesthesiology”. The abstracts were screened for relevance and full articles were located, and 54 articles were chosen. Data analysis was performed using qualitative content analysis.
Generally, concepts extracted from professionalism in anesthesiology dimension are classified in six main categories including: promoting professionalism, accountability, legal issues, self-regulation, physician well-being threats and social media as well as 19 sub-categories.
In this meta-synthesis study, there was an effort to present a new interpretation of the previous studies. This study helped attain a more comprehensive and deeper knowledge about professionalism in anesthesiology and reveal its different aspects, which are not assessed in the past. The results revealed issues such as well-being and burnout needs more effort.
- حق عضویت دریافتی صرف حمایت از نشریات عضو و نگهداری، تکمیل و توسعه مگیران میشود.
- پرداخت حق اشتراک و دانلود مقالات اجازه بازنشر آن در سایر رسانههای چاپی و دیجیتال را به کاربر نمیدهد.