Table 5.
Summary of Practice-Pattern Variables Collected at the Hospital That Provided PWS Using a Programme-Based Management Approach
| General Medicine | Trauma† | Cardiovascular Services |
Critical Care | Oncology | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient visits per hour* | 1.6±0.5 (0.8–3.0) |
1.5±0.4 (0.7–2.2) |
1.7±0.3 (0.9–3.0) |
2.1±0.4 (1.1–3.6) |
1.8±0.6 (0.8–3.4) |
| % of patents seen exclusively for a “chest” condition** | 80.0±40.0 (0.0–100.0) |
52.0±24.5 (25.0–80.0) |
92.0±17.0 (0.0–100.0) |
100.0±0.0 (75.0–100.0) |
100.0±26.2 (0.0–100.0) |
| Number of new referrals each hour** | 0.9±0.8 (0.2–2.0) |
0.3±0.3 (0.0–1.1) |
0.1±0.1 (0.0–0.6) |
0.3±0.3 (0.0–0.6) |
0.2±0.5 (0.0–1.8) |
| % of patient visits classified as “screens”* | 27.4±24.4 (0.0–100.0) |
12.9±12.7 (0.0–44.4) |
23.5±14.4 (0.0–63.6) |
30.6±15.4 (0.0–64.3) |
33.5±21.9 (0.0–71.4) |
| % of patient visits classified as “singles”* | 71.6±24.6 (0.0–100.0) |
83.1±12.5 (55.6–100.0) |
70.3±16.6 (27.3–100.0) |
67.5±15.6 (28.6–94.1) |
65.2±21.7 (28.6–100.0) |
| % of patient visits classified as “doubles”** | 0.0±0.0 (0.0–50.0) |
0.0±6.7 (0.0–25.0) |
0.0±11.1 (0.0–33.3) |
0.0±0.0 (0.0–27.8) |
0.0±0.0 (0.0–33.3) |
| % of total working hours spent with patients* | 85.7±11.0 (37.5–94.7) |
87.2±5.8 (71.4–100.0) |
90.7±7.2 (71.4–100.0) |
90.1±7.4 (62.5–100.0) |
84.2±9.0 (61.5–100.0) |
| % staff completing unpaid overtime** | 4.1 | 31.4 | 14.9 | 31.3 | 21.1 |
See Table 1 for definition of “patient visits,” “screens,” “singles,” and “doubles.” Significant between-group effects were demonstrated for each variable; see text for further details.
*
Comparisons performed using one-way ANOVA; data are presented as mean±SD (min–max).
**
Comparisons performed using Kruskal-Wallis test; data are presented as median±interquartile range (min–max).
***
Comparison performed using chi-squared one-variable test.
†
The clinical service area classified as “trauma” included a small proportion of elective orthopaedic patients.