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

Importance The ideal hospitalist workload and optimal way to measure it are not well
understood. Objective To obtain expert consensus on the salient measures of hospitalist …

Background: There is no 'gold standard'method of rounding for hospitalists. This study
investigates hospitalist rounding preferences to improve efficiency based on resources …

BACKGROUND Though patient census has been used to describe resident physician
workload, this fails to account for variations in patient complexity. Changes in clinical orders …

Hospitalists are medical doctors that specialize in the care of hospitalized patients, a role
that until recently belonged to primary care physicians. We develop an operational model of …

Hospitalists are physicians that specialize in the care of hospital inpatients, a job that until
recently belonged to primary care physicians. We develop an operational model of …

The crisis in emergency medicine in the UK was no surprise to staff in the specialty, but was
not expected by the Department of Health. This article explains how chronic, systematic …

Healthcare providers are often trained and evaluated in an encounter of a single patient.
Healthcare education does not adequately instruct or assess trainees in the management of …

No clear consensus exists on an ideal 12-hour day shift workload for a community-based
hospitalist. A web-based survey of 890 self-identified hospitalists enrolled in QuantiaMd …

I investigate the impacts of a variety of work designs on operational performance of service
providers in two prominent service industries: healthcare and hospitality. I focus on the role …