Wall-mounted folding chairs to promote resident physician sitting at the hospital bedside.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sitting at the bedside may improve patient-clinician communication; however, many clinicians do not regularly sit during inpatient encounters.

Objective

To determine the impact of adding wall-mounted folding chairs inside patient rooms, beyond any impact from a resident education campaign, on the patient-reported frequency of sitting at the bedside by internal medicine resident physicians.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective, controlled pre-post trial between 2019 and 2022 (data collection paused 2020-2021 due to COVID-19) at an academic hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Folding chairs were installed in two of four internal medicine units and educational activities were delivered equally across all units.

Main outcome and measures

Patient-re

SUBMITTER: Golden BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11065620 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature