Time Well Spent

Is time on first-case starts well spent?

Time well spent? Relating television use to children's free-time activities.

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the claim that children's television use interferes with time spent in more developmentally appropriate activities. METHODS Data came from the first wave of the Child Development Supplement, a nationally representative sample of children aged 0 to 12 in 1997 (N = 1712). Twenty-four-hour time-use diaries from 1 randomly chosen weekday and 1 randomly chosen weeken...

Time Well Spent: Patient Industry and Occupation Data Collection in Emergency Departments

OBJECTIVE No comprehensive national system tracking work-related diseases and injuries exists in the United States. Industry and occupation (I/O) are the missing data elements that would make existing healthcare data useful for occupational health. The authors previously petitioned the National Uniform Billing Committee (NUBC) to adopt I/O standards for states to consider during their healthcar...

Predicting Time Spent with Physician

The goal of this project is to predict how much time a physician should be spending with a patient, given the patient’s injury, referral status, and other reported, nonidentifiable medical information. This may be used as an additional factor for measuring and predicting physician efficiency alongside existing methodology. We implement linear regression and a variety of classification technique...

Time Well Spent : The Association Between Time and Effort Allocation and Intent to Leave Among Clinical Faculty

In 1910, Abraham Flexner proposed a new model of medical education with a full-time, salaried medical school faculty, devoted to teaching and research and protected from clinical practice demands. One hundred years later, clinical faculty at academic medical centers typically are salaried. Yet, their funding largely is derived from their clinical efforts and is intended to support the clinical ...