Abstract：
BACKGROUND:Academic medical centers (AMCs) have a constrained resident work force. Many AMCs have increased the use of nonresident service hospitalists to manage continued growth in clinical volume. To optimize their time in the hospital, it is important to understand hospitalists' work flow. DESIGN:We performed a time-motion study of hospitalists carrying the admission pager throughout the 3 types of shifts we have at our hospital (day shift, swing shift, and night shift). SETTING:Tertiary academic medical center in the Midwest. RESULTS:Hospitalists spend about 15% of their time on direct patient care, and two-thirds of their time on indirect patient care. Of the indirect activities, communication and documentation dominate. Travel demands make up over 7% of a hospitalists' time. There are spikes in indirect patient care, followed closely by spikes in direct patient care, at shift changes. CONCLUSIONS:At our AMC, indirect patient care activities accounted for the majority of the admitting hospitalists' time spent in the hospital, with documentation and communication dominating this time. Travel takes a significant fraction of hospitalists' time. There is also a cyclical nature to activities performed throughout the day, which can cause patient delays and impose variability on support services. There is a need for both service-specific and systemic improvements for AMCs to efficiently manage further growth in their inpatient volume.
journal_name
J Hosp Medjournal_title
Journal of hospital medicineauthors
Kim CS,Lovejoy W,Paulsen M,Chang R,Flanders SAdoi
10.1002/jhm.613subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-07-01 00:00:00pages
329-34issue
6eissn
1553-5592issn
1553-5606journal_volume
5pub_type
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