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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-12-9
pubmed:abstractText
In this study, the authors determined how residents in internal medicine allotted their time during patient management rounds (work rounds). Fourteen house staff teams were observed for four days each, and the time spent on all activities was recorded. Of the 56 days studied, work rounds were not conducted on nine days. On the 47 days during which work rounds occurred, only 502 (76.4 percent) of a possible 657 visits to patients were made. Daily time spent on work rounds by each team averaged 49.4 minutes (range: 23.9 to 73.1), or 4.6 minutes (range: 2.3 to 6.6) per patient evaluated. Some part of a physical examination was performed on only 44 percent of the patients. For those patients examined, the average time of an examination was approximately one minute per patient. Vital signs sheets and medication sheets were reviewed infrequently. This study suggests that medical educators should be concerned about the thoroughness of house staff work rounds.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0022-2577
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
61
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
893-900
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Characteristics of house staff work rounds on two academic general medicine services.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article