Modeling Hourly Productivity of Advanced Practice Clinicians in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Advance practice clinicians (APC) play significant roles in academic and community emergency departments (ED). In attendings and residents, prior research demonstrated that productivity is dynamic and changes throughout a shift in a predictable way. However, this has not been studied in APCs. The primary outcome of this study was to model productivity for APCs in community EDs to determine whether it changes during a shift similar to the way it does for attendings and residents.

Methods

This was a retrospective, observational analysis of 10-hour APC shifts at two suburban hospitals, worked by 14 total individuals. We examined the number of patients seen per hour of the shift by experienced APCs who see all acuity and staff all patients with an attending. We used

SUBMITTER: Stenson BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11931699 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature