Background: Academic Medical Centers (AMC) have utilized teams comprised of an attending, resident, interns and medical students to care for hospitalized patients. ACGME work restrictions have reduced the capacity of teaching services. Consequently, most AMCs now rely on direct care Hospital Medicine Services (HMS). Non-clinical tasks (making appointments, faxing for records), traditionally performed by teaching [...]

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 [...]