Table 4:
Time-Motion Study of Burnt Forest Providers
| Clinical Officers | Nurses | Clerks | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity Category | Pre-EMR (n = 3)a | Post-EMR (n = 13)a | P-value | Pre-EMR (n = 9)a | Post-EMR (n = 17)a | P-value | Pre-EMR (n = 5)a | Post-EMR (n = 18)a | P-value |
| Administrative | 2 (4) | 1 (4) | 0.7915 | 2 (3) | 0 (1) | 0.0558 | 5 (2) | 6 (12) | 0.6328 |
| Total patient care | 26 (5) | 34 (9) | 0.2447 | 57 (27) | 13 (10) | 0.0015 | 30 (12) | 41 (8) | 0.0609 |
| Direct patient care | 13 (3) | 20 (6) | 0.1596 | 20 (12) | 7 (7) | 0.0700 | 11 (4) | 19 (4) | 0.0705 |
| Indirect patient care | 11 (6) | 12 (7) | 0.4322 | 15 (13) | 3 (5) | 0.0044 | 14 (3) | 21 (8) | 0.0148 |
| Noncare activities | 48 (31) | 37 (12) | 0.1596 | 34 (15) | 43 (28) | 0.0872 | 37 (19) | 26 (15) | 0.3252 |
| Personal | 26 (33) | 23 (7) | 0.7915 | 2 (6) | 26 (14) | 0.0010 | 25 (7) | 19 (9) | 0.2915 |
| Waiting | 0 (12) | 7 (4) | 0.4322 | 22 (11) | 11 (16) | 0.2149 | 5 (4) | 4 (3) | 0.8539 |
aPercent of workday: median (inter-quartile range). EMR = electronic medical record. Columns do not add up to 100 due to skewness of the data.