Meeting
Abstract Number: 131
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Background: Geographic cohorting (GCh) of clinicians to a single unit may improve teamwork and improve outcomes. The physical proximity between the care team is purported to mediate these positive effects. We conducted an exploratory time-and-motion study of physicians to assess differences in daily activities between GCh and traditionally dispersed or ‘At-Large’ (AL) physicians. We […]
Abstract Number: 375
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Time motion studies are often conducted to describe activities of physicians caring for hospitalized patients with the goal of improving efficiency and patient safety. Prior work has mostly focused on trainees at academic medical centers. However, with the growth of hospital systems, most academic hospitals now have a similar number of patients cared for […]