Salient Measures of Hospitalist Workload.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The ideal hospitalist workload and optimal way to measure it are not well understood.

Objective

To obtain expert consensus on the salient measures of hospitalist workload.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study used a 3-round Delphi technique between April 5 and July 13, 2022, involving national experts within and external to the field. Experts included hospitalist clinicians, leaders, and administrators, as well as researchers with expertise in human factors engineering and cognitive load theory.

Main outcomes and measures

Three rounds of surveys were conducted, during which participants provided input on the salient measures of hospitalist workload across various domains. In the first round, free-text data collected from the surve

SUBMITTER: Burden M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415953 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature