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How Digital and Physical Care Team Interaction Affect Processing Times: A Case Study of Hospitalists
Hospitalist physicians face increasing pressure to maximize productivity while maintaining high quality of care. Their success, however, depends on the effective exchange of information among a patient’s care team. The latter comprises the digital team (caregivers who document in—not just access—the patient’s electronic health record) and a physical team (caregivers who directly communicate with the hospitalist). To determine the association between hospitalist total daily processing time per patient and the size and evolution over the patient’s LOS of the digital and physical teams as well as patient-level characteristics. We measured hospitalist daily processing times and captured the physical team through a time-and-motion study of hospitalists. The digital team interactions were extracted from patient Electronic Health Records. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a large academic urban hospital in Chicago. Participants Our case study selected four hospitalists at random who cared for 107 inpatient stays over 17 days in June-July 2014 and collaborated with 2046 caregivers: 301 were observed physical collaborators and 1745 were digital-only collaborators.
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MICHAEL VAN DOREN JOHNSTON
Professor
Department of Neurology and Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
United States
Department of Neurology and Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
United States
Khue Vu Ngyen
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics
University of California
USA
University of California
USA
Curd Bollen
Professor
Department of periodontology
Parimplant Research Group
Netherlands
Department of periodontology
Parimplant Research Group
Netherlands
Ronn Johnson
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Creighton University Medical School
United States
Department of Psychiatry
Creighton University Medical School
United States
Mohamed Eddouks
Professor
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia
Moulay Ismail University
Morocco
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques Errachidia
Moulay Ismail University
Morocco
Khue Vu Nguyen
Department of Medicine and Pediatrics
University if California
USA
University if California
USA
Fernando A. Herrera
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
United States
Department of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
United States
HONGWEI HOLLY YIN
Assistant Professor
Cancer and Cell Biology Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States
Cancer and Cell Biology Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States
Andrey Budanov
Assistant Professor
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics
Massey Cancer Center
United States
Department of Human and Molecular Genetics
Massey Cancer Center
United States