Table 3. Mean Values for Team Composition, Patient load, and Duration of Location and Activities Observed on Rounds Vary by Specialty.
Internal Medicine (n = 22 observations) | Pediatrics (n = 29 observations) | unadjusted p-valuesa | adjusted p-valuesb | |||
Minutes on rounds, mean (SD) | 104.8 | (40.8) | 124.1 | (36.1) | 0.09 | 0.44 |
Patient census, mean (SD) | 8.9 | (2.51) | 13.9 | (8.4) | 0.005 | 0.04 |
Care Team | ||||||
Total number of physicians, mean (SD) | 4.1 | (2.2) | 8.2 | (3.7) | <.001 | <.001 |
Total number of medical students, mean (SD) | 1.5 | (0.8) | 1.5 | (1.2) | ||
Total number nursing & other medical staff, mean (SD) | 2.4 | (1.8) | 11.9 | (7.0) | <.001 | <.001 |
Location (minutes) | ||||||
Conference room, mean (SD) | 31.3 | (44.4) | 12.7 | (16.4) | 0.07 | 0.44 |
Bedside, mean (SD) | 38.2 | (29.3) | 14.6 | (12.5) | 0.001 | 0.01 |
Bedside minutes per patient, mean (SD) | 4.8 | (4.1) | 1.9 | (1.9) | 0.01 | 0.05 |
Hallways, mean (SD) | 35.2 | (29.5) | 96.9 | (31.6) | <.001 | <.001 |
Content (minutes) | ||||||
New patient discussion, mean (SD) | 19.0 | (29.6) | 21.3 | (20.9) | 0.77 | 1.00 |
New patient discussion per new patient, mean (SD) | 11.1 | (10.9) | 8.3 | (5.1) | 0.42 | 1.00 |
Old patient discussion, mean (SD) | 28.5 | (22.5) | 53.1 | (23.6) | <.001 | <.001 |
Old patient discussion per old patient, mean (SD) | 3.8 | (2.1) | 8.2 | (5.3) | <.001 | <.001 |
Patient & family interaction, mean (SD) | 24.8 | (16.3) | 16.7 | (10.3) | 0.05 | 0.35 |
Patient & family interaction per patient, mean (SD) | 3.1 | (2.3) | 2.0 | (1.8) | 0.09 | 0.44 |
Educational activities, mean (SD) | 10.3 | (13.3) | 7.6 | (8.2) | 0.40 | 1.00 |
Staff communication, mean (SD) | 1.8 | (2.4) | 2.8 | (2.5) | ||
Data review, mean (SD) | 3.2 | (5.3) | 2.1 | (3.9) | ||
Other activities, mean (SD) | 16.4 | (11.1) | 20.5 | (11.0) |
Unadjusted p-values calculated from a two group t-test.
adjusted p-values represent the Holm correction for multiple comparisons. All p-values are two-sided.
Bold text indicates significance of .05 or less.
Grey box indicates no significance test was performed.