Prospective time study derivation of emergency physician workload predictors

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 299-308

  Innes, Grant D ^a,b   Stenstrom, Robert ^a   Grafstein, Eric ^a   Christenson, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency; Manpower; Remuneration; Staffing; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONSULTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 27944496137     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500014482     Document Type: Article

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