Background Effective management of hospital staff time is crucial to quality patient care.
Recent years have seen widespread implementation of electronic health record (EHR) …

Time motion studies were first described in the early 20th century in industrial engineering,
referring to a quantitative data collection method where an external observer captured …

In health care, a high-emotion service, unintended consequences can be especially
problematic. People's physical, psychological, and financial well-being—even their lives …

The best way to train clinicians to optimize their use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
remains unclear. Approaches range from web-based training, class-room training, EHR …

The ED is staffed with 14 young and two to three senior physicians and supported by a
range of more experienced physicians and specialists from the other departments of the …

Objective: To understand emergency department (ED) physicians' use of electronic
documentation in order to identify usability and workflow considerations for the design of …

Abstract Time Motion Studies (TMS) have proved to be the gold standard method to
measure and quantify clinical workflow, and have been widely used to assess the impact of …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Quality care depends on effective communication between
caregivers, but it is unknown whether time spent communicating is associated with …

Background: Use of palliative care has increased substantially as the population ages and
as evidence for its benefits grows. However, there is limited information regarding which …

Background Optimizing patient-hospitalist interactions heightens patient satisfaction,
improves patient health outcomes, and improves hospitalist job satisfaction. A study was …