Table 3.
Time proportion of categorized activities of surgical and internal medicine physicians during day shifts
| Surgeons | Internists | Test of group differences (%t) | |||
| %t | %t | MW-U | Z | p | |
| Direct patient contact | 34.1 | 20.9 | 100.5 | -1.73 | .08 |
| Patient communication | 8.0 | 9.8 | 101.0 | -1.72 | .09 |
| Diagnostics | 5.8 | 7.7 | 117.0 | -1.19 | .23 |
| Therapy | 20.3 | 3.4 | 96.0 | -1.90 | .06 |
| Indirect patient contact | 56.5 | 69.4 | 95.0 | -1.91 | .06 |
| Documentation | 26.8 | 33.1 | 103.0 | -1.65 | .10 |
| Conversation with staff | 16.9 | 21.1 | 98.0 | -1.82 | .07 |
| Conversation with others | 1.6 | 2.6 | 116.0 | -1.23 | .22 |
| Organizing | 1.7 | 2.9 | 95.5 | -1.91 | .06 |
| Meetings | 9.5 | 9.7 | 146.0 | -0.23 | .82 |
| Other professional activities | .3 | 1.4 | 128.0 | -1.36 | .18 |
| Personal activities | 9.1 | 8.3 | 141.5 | -.38 | .70 |
Note: %t percentage of time spent in observed activity in regard to the overall observation time; significance test (%t): Mann-Whitney U-Test for independent samples (p-two sided significance)