A nationwide questionnaire investigation on an agreement document in the university hospitals

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to review the way of use of an agreement document for out patients in the oral surgery departments.
A questionaire was sent to 113 oral surgery department of the university hospitals. Questions was asked concerning an agreement document use, necessity of the document and plan of the document use when patients receive easy tooth extraction, impacted tooth extraction and oral surgery as an outpatient.
Seventy five departments (66.4%) completed a questionaire. The results are as follows;
1) An agreement document is used in 26% of the departments in a case of easy tooth extraction and in about 50% in impacted tooth extraction and oral surgery.
2) About a half of 75 departments are aware of the need of an agreement document for easy tooth extraction and about 80% for both of impacted tooth extraction and oral surgery procedure.
3) 90% of the departments have a plan to use an agreement document or consider to use it in the future.