Table 3.

Pre-post differences in seasonally-matched raw and normalized productivity metrics for the combined sample. Raw data are designated with an R and normalized with an N. Pair-wise comparisons could be done for all months for 62 providers.

Metric	Month paired	2011 Mean	2012 Mean	Diff	95% CI	% change	p-value
RVU/hr	September (R)	5.81	6.44	0.32	0.32–0.93	5.51%	<0.01
	September (N)	0.0013	0.0014	0.8×10−4	0.1×10−4–1.4×10−4	8.06%	0.03
	October (R)	5.45	6.00	0.21	0.21–0.88	3.85%	<0.01
	October (N)	0.0015	0.0017	1.6 ×10−4	0.7×10−4–2.5×10−4	13.6%	<0.01
	November (R)	5.49	5.99	0.18	0.18–0.82	3.28%	<0.01
	November (N)	0.0013	0.0014	1.0 ×10−4	0.1×10−4–1.8×10−4	10.2%	0.03
	December (R)	5.48	5.99	0.52	0.22–0.81	9.49%	<0.01
	December (N)	0.0017	0.0017	0.3 ×10−4	−0.6×10−4–1.1×10−4	2.64%	0.57
RVU/pt	September (R)	2.88	3.09	0.21	0.12–0.31	7.29%	<0.01
	September (N)	0.0007	0.0007	0.1 ×10−4	−0.1×10−4–0.3×10−4	1.84%	0.39
	October (R)	2.86	3.07	0.21	0.10–0.32	7.34%	<0.01
	October (N)	0.0008	0.0009	0.7 ×10−4	0.3×10−4–0.1×10−4	7.83%	<0.01
	November (R)	2.91	2.98	0.07	−0.21–0.15	2.41%	0.14
	November (N)	0.0007	0.0007	0	−0.2×10−4−0.2×10−4	−0.33%	0.98
	December (R)	2.92	3.04	0.12	0.02–0.22	4.11%	0.02
	December (N)	0.0009	0.0009	−0.3 ×10−4	−0.6×10−4–0.0×10−4	−3.45%	0.08
Pt/hr	September (R)	2.05	2.13	0.09	−0.05–0.22	4.39%	0.21
	September (N)	0.0005	0.0005	0	−0.3×10−4–0.3×10−4	2.41%	0.86
	October(R)	1.92	1.99	0.07	−0.08–0.21	3.65%	0.37
	October (N)	0.0005	0.0006	0.2 ×10−4	−0.2×10−4–0.5×10−4	7.37%	0.36
	November(R)	1.92	2.04	0.12	−0.01–0.25	6.25%	0.71
	November (N)	0.0004	0.0005	0.2 ×10−4	−0.1×10−4–0.5×10−4	8.45%	0.23
	December (R)	1.89	2.01	0.12	−0.00–0.23	6.35%	0.06
	December (N)	0.0006	0.0006	−0.1 ×10−4	−0.5×10−4–0.2×10−4	−0.76%	0.37

RVU, relative value units; Pt, patient