Attitudes and regard for specific medical conditions among Australian emergency medicine clinicians.

Objective: To quantify the attitude ED clinicians hold towards patients presenting with different medical conditions, including a novel pandemic condition.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of emergency doctors and nurses utilising the Medical Condition Regard Scale (MCRS); a validated tool used to capture the bias and emotions of clinicians towards individual medical conditions. The five conditions presented to participants each represent a classical medical, complex medical, psychiatric/substance use, somatoform and a novel medical condition.