Figure 1.

Comparison of proportions of time spent on different tasks in the 4 emergency departments (A) and 2 other studies using the Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) method (B). (A) The median and interquartile range of the data for individual observations of physician work at 4 EDs are shown by the symbol and the gray bars. The different task categories are labeled on the x-axis at the top of the figure. University of Alberta Hospital: filled squares; Grey Nuns Community Hospital: filled circles; Foothill Medical Centre: empty squares; Peter Lougheed Centre: empty circles. (B) The mean time spent and 95% CIs are reported for this study (+ sign), an Australian study of emergency department physician work (at a registrar training level comparable with the participants in the current work; x sign), and an Australian study of hospital ward physician work (* sign).