Trial reportPloS one2016
Impact of Attending Physicians' Comments on Residents' Workloads in the Emergency Department: Results from Two J(^o^)PAN Randomized Controlled Trials.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- "Shh-don't say the Q-word" or do you?The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery · 2021Trial
- Q fever-the superstition of avoiding the word "quiet" as a coping mechanism: randomised controlled non-inferiority trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019Trial
- The Influence of Food Superstition (Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC) on the On-Duty Surgeon's Workload: A Multiple-Armed Randomized Controlled Trial.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2026Article
- Elective arthroplasty on "high-risk" calendar dates: no evidence for worse outcomes in 43,000 procedures.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2026Article
- A quiet place: The impact of the word "quiet" on clinical workload.World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery · 2023Article
- Debunking the myth of using "quiet" in clinical departments: an integrative overview of available literature.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- The influence of quotations uttered in emergency service triage traffic and hospitalization (Quiet).Open veterinary journal · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine whether peppy comments from attending physicians increased the workload of residents working in the emergency department (ED).
methodsWe conducted two parallel-group, assessor-blinded, randomized trials at the ED in a tertiary care hospital in western Japan. Twenty-five residents who examined either ambulatory (J(^o^)PAN-1 Trial) or transferred patients (J(^o^)PAN-2 Trial) in the ED on weekdays. Participants were randomly assigned to groups that either received a peppy message such as "Hope you have a quiet day!" (intervention group) or did not (control group) from the attending physicians. Both trials were conducted from June 2014 through March 2015. For each trial, residents rated the number of patients examined during and the busyness and difficulty of their shifts on a 5-point Likert scale.
resultsA total of 169 randomizations (intervention group, 81; control group, 88) were performed for the J(^o^)PAN-1 Trial, and 178 (intervention group, 85; control group, 93) for the J(^o^)PAN-2 Trial. In the J(^o^)PAN-1 trial, no differences were observed in the number of ambulatory patients examined during their shifts (5.5 and 5.7, respectively, p = 0.48), the busyness of their shifts (2.8 vs 2.8; p = 0.58), or the difficulty of their shifts (3.1 vs 3.1, p = 0.94). However, in the J(^o^)PAN-2 trial, although busyness (2.8 vs 2.7; p = 0.40) and difficulty (3.1 vs 3.2; p = 0.75) were similar between groups, the intervention group examined more transferred patients than the control group (4.4 vs 3.9; p = 0.01).
conclusionsPeppy comments from attending physicians had a minimal jinxing effect on the workload of residents working in the ED.
trial registrationUniversity Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR), UMIN000017193 and UMIN000017194.
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