Background: Hospitalists provide around-the-clock care for patients. There is a need to characterize the work and workflows of hospitalists during different times of the day in order to ensure that clinicians are tasked with workloads that enable safe patient care, alignment with quality goals, professional fulfillment, and efficient use of resources. While there are relatively [...]

Background: A challenge facing many hospital medicine programs is matching provider staffing to daily patient volumes. Staffing models and clinical work schedules are typically built weeks or months in advance, with limited ability to flex up or down in real time based on actual patient volumes. Patient volumes can vary significantly on a daily or [...]