Figure 1.

Percentage of hospitalist working days that is part of a ≥ 3 or ≥ 5 or ≥ 7 block of consecutive working days. The figure ranks 2334 Texas hospitalists by the percentage of working days that was part of a block of ≥ 3 or ≥ 5 or ≥ 7 working days. The 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of hospitalists are indicated by vertical dotted lines. For example, 147 hospitalists (6%) had no block of 3 or more consective days of working; 1167 hospitalists (50%) spent at least 81% of their working days as part of a> 3-day block of consecutive working days; 370 hospitalists (16%) had no blocks of working five or more consecutive days; and 655 (28%) had no blocks of 7 or more days.