Open AccessUsing Relative Value Units to Measure Faculty Clinical Productivity
Author(s) -
Albritton T. Andrew,
Miller Max D.,
Johnson Maribeth H.,
Rahn Daniel W.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of general internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.746
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 1525-1497
pISSN - 0884-8734
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.07146.x
Subject(s) - medicine , productivity , relative value , affect (linguistics) , variance (accounting) , measure (data warehouse) , medical education , family medicine , psychology , business , accounting , communication , finance , database , computer science , economics , macroeconomics
The objective of this project was to compare faculty productivity in teaching and nonteaching clinical settings. We hypothesized that teaching activity would have no impact on productivity. A mixed model, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze average relative value units (RVUs) billed and to test for differences between clinics. Data were drawn from 4,956 clinical encounters made within a student, resident, and faculty clinic. Average RVUs per visit were similar in the three settings. Resident supervision increased faculty productivity, while student supervision had no impact on billed RVUs. Thus, RVUs can be used as a measure of faculty clinical productivity in different settings in an academic medical center. Precepting students does not appear to affect clinical productivity.