Context Recent trends in hours worked by physicians may affect workforce needs but have
not been thoroughly analyzed. Objectives To estimate trends in hours worked by US …

Importance Physician work hours are an underexplored facet of the physician workforce that
can inform policy for the rapidly changing health care labor market. Objective To examine …

Background Physicians' concerns with the health care system focus on having less time with
their patients and needing to work harder to maintain incomes. We sought to determine …

Abstract Background In both Europe and the US, resident physician work hour reduction has
been a source of controversy within academic medicine. In 2008, the Institute of Medicine …

This paper employs a cohort analysis to examine the relative importance of different factors
in explaining changes in the number of hours spent in direct patient care by Canadian …

Background: In 2002, the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education enacted
regulations, effective 1 July 2003, that limited work hours for all residency programs in the …

Using an extensive survey of Canadian physicians, we study how physician practice
patterns are shaped by demographic characteristics, physician specialty, and government …

Background The gender gap in physician pay is often attributed in part to women working
fewer hours than men, but evidence to date is limited by self-report and a lack of detail …

The Drivers of High Health Care Costs The late Uwe Reinhardt is famous for answering the
question about what drives high US health care costs with the assertion “It's the prices …

Background Previous studies have documented income differences between male and
female physicians. However, the implications of these differences are unclear, since …