Resident Supervision and Patient Care: A Comparative Time Study in a Community-Academic Versus a Community Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to compare attending emergency physician (EP) time spent on direct and indirect patient care activities in emergency departments (EDs) with and without emergency medicine (EM) residents.

Methods

We performed an observational, time-motion study on 25 EPs who worked in a community-academic ED and a nonacademic community ED. Two observations of each EP were performed at each site. Average time spent per 240-minute observation on main-category activities are illustrated in percentages. We report descriptive statistics (median and interquartile ranges) for the number of minutes EPs spent per subcategory activity, in total and per patient. We performed a Wilcoxon two-sample test to assess differences between time spent across two EDs.

Results

The

SUBMITTER: Wang EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6795365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature