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Table 3 Time proportion of categorized activities of surgical and internal medicine physicians during day shifts

From: Participant observation of time allocation, direct patient contact and simultaneous activities in hospital physicians

 

Surgeons

Internists

Test of group differences (%t)

 

%t

%t

MW-U

Z

p

Direct patient contact

34.1

20.9

100.5

-1.73

.08

Patient communication

8.0

9.8

101.0

-1.72

.09

Diagnostics

5.8

7.7

117.0

-1.19

.23

Therapy

20.3

3.4

96.0

-1.90

.06

Indirect patient contact

56.5

69.4

95.0

-1.91

.06

Documentation

26.8

33.1

103.0

-1.65

.10

Conversation with staff

16.9

21.1

98.0

-1.82

.07

Conversation with others

1.6

2.6

116.0

-1.23

.22

Organizing

1.7

2.9

95.5

-1.91

.06

Meetings

9.5

9.7

146.0

-0.23

.82

Other professional activities

.3

1.4

128.0

-1.36

.18

Personal activities

9.1

8.3

141.5

-.38

.70

  1. Note: %t percentage of time spent in observed activity in regard to the overall observation time; significance test (%t): Mann-Whitney U-Test for independent samples (p-two sided significance)