ArticleWiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)2011
Time and motion study of anesthesiologists' workflow in German hospitals.
Article in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Evaluation of the Time Spent by Anesthetist on Clinical Tasks in the Operating Room.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the time required for overhead tasks performed by physicians, medical physicists, and technicians in radiation oncology institutions: the DEGRO-QUIRO study.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2015Article
- Hospital physicians perform five types of work duties in Japan: an observational study.BMC health services research · 2014Observational
- Time motion studies in healthcare: what are we talking about?Journal of biomedical informatics · 2014Review
- Improving quality of medical treatment and care: are surgeons' working conditions and job satisfaction associated to patient satisfaction?Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2012Article
- Time Capture Tool (TimeCaT): development of a comprehensive application to support data capture for Time Motion Studies.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2012Article
- [Burnout in anesthesiology].Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of this study was to investigate anesthesiologists' workflow in real time.
methodsAnesthesiologists were observed for a total of 60 workdays. All tasks performed during this time were recorded in real time.
resultsThe anesthesiologists were shadowed for a total of 517:16:36 hours. The average workday lasted 08:37:17 hours. Overall they spent 28.5% of each workday on indirect patient care, 14.7% on direct patient care and 18.8% on administrative work. Communication took up 19.9% of anesthesiologists' time, breaks and disruptions 15.2% and other job tasks 2.9%.
conclusionsThe results comprise objective data about the workflow and working conditions in anesthesiology. We found support of the large imbalance between the direct patient care and the heavy administrative workload reported by physicians. These results may be useful in future efforts to improve anesthesiologists' working conditions and workflow optimization.
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