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    A study on Assessment of Communication Level among Nurses and Physicians working in Adult Emergency Department of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2018.
    (Addis Ababa Universty, 2018-06) Amanu Eyerusalem; Zewedu Tigist
    Background: Communication is a means of sending, receiving and exchanging information between two or a group of health professionals and patients. Work in EDs requires collaboration among health care workers from multidisciplinary professions in delivery of patient care. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess level of communication among nurses and physicians in adult emergency department (ED) of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methodology: A cross sectional study with data collection was conducted in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital from April 20 to May 30, 2018. Standardized data collection tool was used to collect the data. The data was entered into Epi data and exported to SPSS version 23 for analysis. The report was depicted descriptively using measures of central tendency, dispersion and displayed through texts, graphs and figures. Result: Out of 109 participants who were included in this study with female to male ratio of 1: 1.36. Regarding to the educational level majority of them were BSc nurses 46 (42.2%) and 26 (23.9%) of them were interns. Regarding the level of communication, 55% of the respondents have poor level of communication. On binary logistic regression, year of experience of respondents was found to have a significant association with level of communication. Conclusion: The study found that there was poor communication level between nurses and physicians in emergency department. Based on the finding from binary logistic regression, as the year of experience increases the level of communication also improves.