Participant observation of time allocation, direct patient contact and simultaneous activities in hospital physicians

Participant observation of time allocation, direct patient contact and simultaneous activities in hospital physicians

BACKGROUND Hospital physicians' time is a critical resource in medical care. Two aspects are of interest. First, the time spent in direct patient contact - a key principle of effective medical care. Second, simultaneous task performance ('multitasking') which may contribute to medical error, impaired safety behaviour, and stress. There is a call for instruments to assess these aspects. A prelim...

A Simultaneous Dynamic Travel And Activities Time Allocation Model

Doing participant observation in a psychiatric hospital-- research ethics resumed.

Social scientists who employ participant observation methods in medical settings are often held accountable for their research methods, specifically in regard to medical research ethics. However, the medical research ethics tradition rubs uneasily against participant observation and the anthropological understanding of the research process. The underlying premise for considering research ethics...

The time needed for clinical documentation versus direct patient care. A work-sampling analysis of physicians' activities.

OBJECTIVES Health care professionals seem to be confronted with an increasing need for high-quality, timely, patient-oriented documentation. However, a steady increase in documentation tasks has been shown to be associated with increased time pressure and low physician job satisfaction. Our objective was to examine the time physicians spend on clinical and administrative documentation tasks. We...

Patient waiting time in hospital emergency departments of Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Waiting time in emergency department is a key indicator in measuring the quality of hospital services and has a significant impact on patient satisfaction The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of the patients' waiting time in hospital emergency departments in Iran.    Methods: Data were collected from databases of Web of Science, E...