Analysis of Resident and Attending Physician End-of-Rotation Changeover Days and Association With Patient Length of Stay.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

End-of-rotation resident physician changeover is a key part of postgraduate training but could lead to discontinuity in patient care.

Objective

To test whether patients exposed to end-of-rotation resident changeover have longer hospital stays and whether this association is mitigated by separating resident and attending changeover days.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort analysis included adult patients admitted to general internal medicine. The changeover day was the same day (first Monday of month) for both resident and attending physicians until June 30, 2013 (preseparation period), and then intentionally staggered by 1 or more days after July 1, 2013 (postseparation period). This was a multicenter analysis at 4 teaching hospital

SUBMITTER: Manzoor F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10037142 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature