Investigation of ECG Professional Team Building and the Displine Construction in China / 中华医学科研管理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective By investigating the departments of ECG and the staff in China,to study the current ECG status and thus provide references for training ECG workers,improving the work environment and stabilizing the ECG professional team.Methods One hundred and twenty four domestie grass-root hospitals were investigated through real-name questionnaire surveys.The data was collected and analyzed.Results Among the 124 investigated hospitals,the educational background description is(1) The ECG workers in provincial or municipal hospitals had mainly been entitled with Bachelor's degree or above accounting for 72.7％ of whole ECG workers;the ECG workers in the county or township hospitals were entitled with college degree or below,accounting for 85.7％ of whole ECG workers.The difference between the two kind of workers was significant(P＜0.01).(2) The proportion of ECG workers owning senior professional titles in provincial or municipal hospitals and county or township hospitals were both low,which were 12.2％ and 3.6％,and the former one was significantly higher than the later(P＜0.01).(3) The proportion of hospitals which established dependent department of ECG was low;the percentage of provincial or municipal hospitals was 23.4％,which was significantly higher than that of county or township hospitals (3.3％,P＜0.05).(4) The provincial or municipal hospitals were well equipped and also conducted various of inspection projects in comparison to county or township hospitals.Conclusions The grass-root ECG staff in China has no satisfying education background and professional titles;ECG department belonging varies and the special inspection projects are insufficient and the economic benefit was low.So this study suggest that the competent departments take measures in improving ECG personnel enthusiasm,improving the working environment,and ensuring the healthy and orderly development of ECG profession.