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Table 4 Physicians’ work organization for group and over time

From: The effects of improving hospital physicians working conditions on patient care: a prospective, controlled intervention study

 

Intervention departments

Control departments

Significance testing

 

Baseline

Follow-up

Baseline

Follow-up

Group x Time

 

N = 19

N = 21

N = 19

N = 16

(ANOVA)

Indicators of hospital physicians’ work conditions

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

F(df = 1); p

1

Workflow interruptions

4.04

.67

3.77

.68

4.05

.59

4.06

.47

0.69; n. s.

2

Conflicts in role and task demands

3.42

.60

2.83

.67

3.30

.82

3.27

.64

3.03; .09

3

Colleague support

3.11

.77

3.38

.74

3.58

.68

3.31

.46

2.91; .09

4

Quality losses

3.12

.95

2.83

.73

2.98

.93

2.83

.74

0.54; n. s.

5

Quality of cooperation with patient relatives

3.47

.51

3.71

.56

3.74

.65

3.44

.63

3.90; .05*

6

Quality of cooperation with nursing staff

3.74

.73

4.05

.59

4.00

.88

3.81

.66

2.21; n. s.

  1. Note: N Number of Physicians, M Mean, SD Standard deviation, Scale Range: Scale of indicators 1-4 1 = “not at all” to 5 = “yes, to a very great extent”; Scale of Indicators 5 and 6 1 = “very bad” to 5 = “very good”; *p < .05 Significance level, †p < .10 Significance level.