Patient Perceptions of Whom is Most Involved in Their Care with Successive Duty Hour Limits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although direct patient care is necessary for experiential learning during residency, inpatient perceptions of the roles of resident and attending physicians in their care may have changed with residency duty hours.

Objective

We aimed to assess if patients' perceptions of who is most involved in their care changed with residency duty hours.

Design

This was a prospective observational study over 12 years at a single institution.

Participants

Participants were 22,408 inpatients admitted to the general medicine teaching service from 2001 to 2013, who completed a 1-month follow-up phone interview.

Main measures

Percentage of inpatients who reported an attending, resident, or intern as most involved in their care by duty hour period (pre-2003, post

SUBMITTER: Arora VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539331 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature