Shifting Toward Balance: Measuring the Distribution of Workload Among Emergency Physician Teams

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 419-423

  Levin, Scott ^a,b   Aronsky, Dominik ^b   Hemphill, Robin ^b   Han, Jin ^b   Slagle, Jason ^b   France, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SHIFT WORKER; STRESS; WORKLOAD;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34548567930     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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