Impact of Attending Physicians' Comments on Residents' Workloads in the Emergency Department: Results from Two J(^o^)PAN Randomized Controlled Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether peppy comments from attending physicians increased the workload of residents working in the emergency department (ED).

Methods

We conducted two parallel-group, assessor-blinded, randomized trials at the ED in a tertiary care hospital in western Japan. Twenty-five residents who examined either ambulatory (J(^o^)PAN-1 Trial) or transferred patients (J(^o^)PAN-2 Trial) in the ED on weekdays. Participants were randomly assigned to groups that either received a peppy message such as "Hope you have a quiet day!" (intervention group) or did not (control group) from the attending physicians. Both trials were conducted from June 2014 through March 2015. For each trial, residents rated the number of patients examined during and the busyness and difficulty

SUBMITTER: Kuriyama A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5147894 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature