Physicians Work Distribution in a Danish Emergency Department
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 9
- Primary Endpoint
- time in minutes used by Emergency Department (ED) physician on direct patient contact, documentation, communication about the patient.
Study Overview
Brief Summary
physicians in the Emergency Department spend their time on interviewing and examining patients, file documentation, communication with colleagues about the patients.
Introduction of IT technology aims to reduce the administrative workload. However it is the impression that more and more time are used behind the PC rather than at the side of the patient.
The aim of this study is to describe how the time is distributed between different task for an ED physician, and to analyse whether there are differences in time distribution if the physician is working in the outpatient area versus admission area of the ED.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Case Only
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •ED physicians employed in the ED department
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
time in minutes used by Emergency Department (ED) physician on direct patient contact, documentation, communication about the patient.
Time Frame: first 24 hours after patient arrival to ED
the time measured in minutes used by the emergency physician on direct patient contact, examination and treatment, documentation in IT systems and communication with other health staff about the patient is counted by indepedent observer
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Christian Backer Mogensen
assistant professor
University of Southern Denmark