Table 2 and figure 1 about here
On average, 3 persons (range: 2-8) participated in a given consultation.
Also, an average of 4 messages (range: 2-20) were exchanged in every
consultation (not including daily routine messages such as thanks,
goodbye, etc.). In 20% (76 cases) of the consultations, there were no
certain answers. Most of them dealt with ”maternal and infant cases”,
”procedures, drugs and ICU cases”, ”other diseases with contact with and
exposure to COVID-19 or COVID-19 history”. In 158 (47.5%) cases,
consultations were concluded during work hours (both requests and first
reply messages). In 182 (54.8%) cases, request messages were concluded
during work time and in 149 (45.1%) cases, the first responses were
also during working hours. A significant relationship between
consultation categories and final conclusion (consultation had certain
answer or not) was observed (χ2 = 89.539, p=
<.001). The degree of significance was calculated using
Cramer’s V test as 0.550. Table3 describes the details of the goodness
of fit.