Table 5:
Time-Motion Study of Turbo Providers
Clinical Officers | Nurses | Clerks | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Activity Category | Pre-EMR (n = 7)a | Post-EMR (n = 23)a | P-value | Pre-EMR (n = 7)a | Post-EMR (n = 15)a | P-value | Pre-EMR (n = 6)a | Post-EMR (n = 17)a | P-value |
Administrative | 0 (0) | 1 (5) | .0538 | 0 (2) | 0 (1) | .8889 | 11 (15) | 7 (11) | .3210 |
Total patient care | 32 (28) | 41 (12) | .1803 | 45 (20) | 25 (23) | .0141 | 42 (8) | 45 (5) | .3548 |
Direct patient care | 15 (11) | 21 (8) | .3592 | 20 (27) | 8 (5) | .0054 | 16 (4) | 20 (3) | .0245 |
Indirect patient care | 13 (7) | 12 (7) | .8841 | 11 (4) | 4 (5) | .0046 | 18 (5) | 21 (4) | .4293 |
Non-care activities | 30 (26) | 33 (12) | .8841 | 39 (21) | 46 (33) | .1199 | 34 (14) | 30 (11) | .3909 |
Personal | 22 (33) | 19 (9) | 0.4391 | 15 (10) | 23 (11) | .0259 | 6 (12) | 18 (7) | .0245 |
Waiting | 2 (3) | 7 (5) | 0.0091 | 13 (17) | 12 (14) | .6766 | 6 (10) | 5 (3) | .3210 |
aPercent of workday: median (inter-quartile range). EMR = electronic medical record. Columns do not add up to 100 due to skewness of the data.