ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2019
Use of a Real-Time Location System to Understand Resident Location in an Academic Medical Center.
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- A systematic review of evidence-based practices for clinical education and health care delivery in the clinical teaching unit.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2022Pooled it
- How Data Analytics Can Be Leveraged to Enhance Graduate Clinical Skills Education.Journal of graduate medical education · 2025Article
- Use of a Real-Time Locating System to Assess Internal Medicine Resident Location and Movement in the Hospital.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Using a Real-Time Locating System to Evaluate the Impact of Telemedicine in an Emergency Department During COVID-19: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThere is great interest in understanding how residents spend their time in the hospital, but traditional time and motion studies are resource intensive and limited in scale.
objectiveWe determined whether a real-time location system (RTLS) that uses infrared emitting badges can be used to track resident time and location.
methodsResidents rotating on an internal medicine service in January 2018 were given the option to wear an RTLS badge. RTLS data were compared to the call schedule for each participating resident in a deidentified manner. Rules were created to identify work periods to be manually reviewed for data integrity. Reviewed work periods where there were extended periods of time without RTLS badge movement (eg, greater than 300 minutes) were excluded from analysis.
resultsData were collected from 18 residents and included 236 work periods (2922 hours). Based on prespecified rules, 146 work periods were included, representing 83% of total eligible residents (n = 15) and 82% of total hours recorded (2397 hours). Residents spent the highest percentage of their time in physician workrooms (44%, SD 15%), followed by ward hallways (25%, SD 7%) and patient rooms (17%, SD 7%). Several work periods were excluded because residents left their RTLS badge in physician workrooms after the work period ended.
conclusionsThis study demonstrates the potential utility of RTLS to measure resident time and location in the hospital.
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