Inter-hospital comparison of working time allocation among internal medicine residents using time-motion observations: an innovative benchmarking tool.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The vast majority of residents' working time is spent away from patients. In hospital practice, many factors may influence the resident's working day structure.Using an innovative method, we aimed to compare working time allocation among internal medicine residents using time-motion observations. The first study goal was to describe how the method could be used for inter-hospital comparison. The secondary goal was to learn about specific differences in the resident's working day structure in university and non-university hospital settings.

Design

Two separate time-motion studies. Trained peer-observers followed the residents during weekday day shifts with a tablet, able to record 22 different activities and corresponding context (with patient, phone, colleague or

SUBMITTER: Frey SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7044966 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature