General Information:
1. In which region are you working?
2. In which hospital system do you practice?
3. In which sector of health care do you practice?
4. Which cadres do you belong to?
5. How many years of experience do you have as a medical doctor/clinical officer/nurse/medical assistant?
6. In which department do you work?
7. Have you specialized as a medical doctor specialist?
8. Thinking very generally about your satisfaction with your overall career in medicine, would you say that you are CURRENTLY?
9. We have listed some of the factors that may have contributed to your current dissatisfaction with your overall career in medicine (only answer if this applies to you). Please tick all boxes that may apply to your current situation.
10. Thinking of your last complete week of work, approximately how many hours did you spend in all medically related activities? Please include all time spent in administrative tasks, professional activities, and direct patient care.
11. Again, thinking of your last complete week of work, how many patient visits did you personally have in each of the following settings? Please count as one visit each time you saw a patient.
Primary, specialty and urgent care access at your main place of practice
12. What percentage of your patients get regularly scheduled routine check-ups as part of their primary care?
13. How often do you schedule routine checkups on your patients on average?
14. How do patients normally book appointments at your clinic? (please X all boxes that apply)
15. How easy is it to get through to someone in your clinic on the phone?
16. If a patient needs to see you urgently, can they normally get seen on the same day?
17. How easy is it to schedule an appointment in your clinic?
18. How long do your patients usually wait for your consultation to start?
19. How much time do you usually have for a patient?
Spatial access:
20. How long does it usually take for your patients to travel to your practice?
21. What distance do your patients travel to your practice on average?
22. What transportation method do your patients usually use to get to your practice? (Multiple responses allowed)
23. How long do your patients usually have to wait for their test results?
Communication access between visits:
24. How can your patients contact you outside of your appointments? (Please X all boxes that apply)
25. How long do your patients usually have to wait for their test results?
Cultural access:
26. On a scale from 1-5, how would you rate your familiarity with your patient’s culture on average? (1 being not familiar at all, 5 being very familiar)
27. On a scale from 1-5, how often do you experience difficulties in understanding your patient’s language? (1 being very rarely, 5 being very often)
Longitudinal Continuity:
28. What percentage of your patients visits you on a regular basis as their “usual provider”?
Relational Continuity:
29. What percentage of your patients would you say that you know as a person, rather than someone with a medical problem?
Informational Continuity & Cross-boundary Coordination
30. Do you usually have access to your patients’ previous encounters, medical records and history?
31. If yes, please specify through what means.
Continuing Professional Development
32. As a health professional, when did you last learn something new about improving the care you give to your patients:
33. What was your source of learning:
34. If someone were to give you information related to care of patients, what would be your preferred mode of communication:
35. What is your major limitation to accessing and using the local (Malawi) Medical Journal:
BRAIN AND SPINAL TUMORS:
36. Listed below are the most common symptoms you may experience in patients presenting with brain or spinal tumors. Please tick all symptoms you consider to be brain/spinal tumor symptoms. (multiple responses allowed):
37. Have you selected any of the possibilities?
