Physicians Work Distribution in a Danish Emergency Department

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01722721

Enrollment

Registered

2012-11-07

Start date

2012-01-31

Completion date

2012-02-29

Last updated

2025-11-25

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Conditions

Time Usage of ED Physicians

Brief summary

physicians in the Emergency Department spend their time on interviewing and examining patients, file documentation, communication with colleagues about the patients. Introduction of IT technology aims to reduce the administrative workload. However it is the impression that more and more time are used behind the PC rather than at the side of the patient. The aim of this study is to describe how the time is distributed between different task for an ED physician, and to analyse whether there are differences in time distribution if the physician is working in the outpatient area versus admission area of the ED.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

ED physicians employed in the ED department

Exclusion criteria

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
time in minutes used by Emergency Department (ED) physician on direct patient contact, documentation, communication about the patient.	first 24 hours after patient arrival to ED	the time measured in minutes used by the emergency physician on direct patient contact, examination and treatment, documentation in IT systems and communication with other health staff about the patient is counted by indepedent observer

Outcome results