Open AccessAn attending physician float shift for the improvement of physician productivity in a crowded emergency department
Author(s) -
Muhammad Umer Nasim,
C. Mistry,
Robert Harwood,
Erik Kulstad,
Laura Tommaso
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
world journal of emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1920-8642
DOI - 10.5847/wjem.j.issn.1920-8642.2013.01.002
Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , emergency medicine , productivity , float (project management) , crowding , workload , schedule , medical emergency , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics , neuroscience , marine engineering , biology , computer science , engineering , operating system
Patients backlogged in the emergency department (ED) waiting for an inpatient bed (boarders) continue to require the attention of ED physicians, exacerbating crowding in the ED. To address this problem, we added a "float shift" to our winter schedule solely to care for boarders. We sought to quantify the effect of this float shift, hypothesizing greater physician productivity.