Table 3.

What Do People Learn About During Team Bedside Rounds?

Topic	# (%) Patients Who Learned About This	How Important Is It to Learn About This?* Mean (SD)
Old medical problems	50 (51)	1.87 (0.99)
New medical problems	73 (75)	1.10 (0.45)
Reason for hospitalization	72 (74)	1.31 (0.68)
Tests to be done	77 (79)	1.14 (0.51)
Treatments to be done	73 (75)	1.16 (0.49)
How the hospital works	28 (29)	1.67 (0.81)
How patient is doing	61 (63)	†
What to expect from the condition	57 (59)	†
Nothing	5 (5)
Other	7 (7)

^*1 = very important, 4 = not at all.

^†Did not ask about the importance of these items.

SD, standard deviation.