NCT01722721

Physicians Work Distribution in a Danish Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 9 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Southern Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Time Usage of ED Physicians

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-01
• Completion: 2012-02-01
• First posted: 2012-11-07
• Last updated: 2025-11-25