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. 2021 Feb 4;2(1):e12362. doi: 10.1002/emp2.12362

TABLE 3.

Distribution of observed activities across observation periods

Observed activity Pre‐implementation (n = 29) Phase I mean (95% CI) Go‐live (n = 28) Phase II mean (95% CI) Post‐implementation (n = 27) Phase III mean (95% CI) Pre‐ to go‐live change Phase I to phase II comparison P‐value Go‐live to post‐ change Phase II to phase III comparison P‐value Pre‐ to post‐ change Phase I to phase III comparison P‐value
Chart review min:sec/pt 2:47 (2:24–3:10) 2:50 (2:19–3:21) ↑ 3:41 (2:48–4:35) ↑ 0:03 0.88 NS 0:51 0.09 NS 0:54 0.05 ↑
Direct patient care min:sec/pt 9:06 (8:23–9:48) 8:56 (7:57–9:54) ↑ 8:23 7:25–9:22) ↓ 0:10 0.77 NS 0:33 0.43 NS 0:43 0.23 NS
Documentation min:sec/pt 5:28 (4:45–6:11) 7:12 (6:06–8:18) ↑ 6:04 (4:52–7:16) ↓ 1:44 0.01 ↑ 1:08 0.16 NS 0:36 0.38 NS
Patient efficiency patients seen/hour 2.72 (2.54–2.90) 2.21 (2.00–2.42) ↓ 2.41 (2.19–2.63) ↑ 0.51 <0.01 ↓ 0.2 0.18 NS 0.31 0.03 ↓
Tech/IT support proportion of shift N/A 0.8 ( 0.4–1.2) 0.2 (0.1–0.3) ↓ N/A 0.6 <0.01 NS N/A
Learner activities (n = 13) Learner activities (n = 24) Learner activities (n = 20)
All learner activities % of shift 12.8 (9.0–16.6) 15.3 (12.5–18.1) ↑ 14.2 (9.2–19.2) ↓ 2.5 0.28 NS 1.1 0.68 NS 1.4 0.68 NS
Discrete teaching % of shift 5.6 (1.8–9.3) 5.8 (3.6–7.9) ↑ 5.6 (2.6–8.6) ↓ 0.2 0.91 NS 0.2 0.96 NS 0.0 0.98 NS
Tech/logical teaching % of shift 0.3 (0.0–0.6) 0.5 (0.2–0.9) ↑ 0.6 (0.3–0.9) ↑ 0.2 0.37 NS 0.1 0.81 NS 0.3 0.20 NS
Clinical case review with learner % of shift 7.0 (4.7–9.3) 9.0 (6.9–11.1) ↑ 8.0 (5.0–11.0) ↓ 2.0 0.21 NS 1.0 0.56 NS 1.0 0.60 NS

↑↓, indicate statistical significance.