Authors' reply: “(Re)turning the pages of residency: The impact of localizing resident physicians to hospital units on paging frequency”

METHODS: The study is a retrospective analysis of the number of pages received by interns on 5 internal medicine teams: 2 in a geographically localized model (GLM), 2 in a partial localization model (PLM), and 1 in a standard model (SM) over 1 month at New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell. Multivariate linear regression techniques were used to analyze the relationship between the number of pages received per intern and the type of team. RESULTS: The number of pages received per intern per hour, adjusted for team census and number of admissions, was 2.2 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.0–2.4) in the GLM, 2.8 (95% CI: 2.6–3.0) in the PLM, and 3.9 (95% CI: 3.6–4.2) in the SM; all differences were statistically significant (P<0.001).