Association Between Physician Part-time Clinical Work and Patient Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite the growing number of physicians who reduce clinical time owing to research, administrative work, and family responsibilities, the quality of care provided by these physicians remains unclear.

Objective

To examine the association between the number of days worked clinically per year by physicians and patient mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional analysis was completed on a 20% random sample of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries 65 years and older who were admitted to the hospital with an emergency medical condition and treated by a hospitalist in 2011 through 2016. Because hospitalists typically work in shifts, hospitalists' patients are plausibly quasirandomized to hospitalists based on the hospitalists' work schedul

SUBMITTER: Kato H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8438618 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature