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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2013 Apr;88(4):512–518. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318285800f

Table 2.

Number of Daily Notes Written By Interns and Number of Unique Patient Encounters Before (2010) and After (2011) Restriction of Interns to a Maximum of 16 Consecutive Hours of Work, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Clinical volume measure 2010 No. (95% CI) 2011 No. (95% CI) P value
Total notes written per intern 359.7 (321.9–397.4) 376.2 (342.1–410.3) 0.51
 History and physical notes (95% CI) 73.2 (64.9–81.5) 87.5 (81.7–93.3) 0.005
 Daily progress notes (95% CI) 286.4 (255.1–317.8) 288.7 (258.6–318.9) 0.92
Unique patients seen per intern (95% CI) 118.3 (106.9–129.8) 140.0 (130.2–149.8) 0.005
*

A total of 47 interns were studied before the restriction; 50 interns were studied afterward.

Notes were captured in a Web-based