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Table 2 Duration of time between pages received by 4 services at The Ottawa Hospital General (G) and Civic (C) campus

From: Is it time to rethink how we page physicians? Understanding paging patterns in a tertiary care hospital

 

Mean duration

Median Duration

All pages (± SD)

Pages between 4 pm - 8 pm (± SD)

Pages between 12 am - 6 am (± SD)

All pages

General Surgery (C)

0:31:36 (± 1:30:3)

0:21:55 (± 0:23:51)

0:50:27 (± 0:50:45)

0:18:00

General Surgery (G)

0:33:20 (± 1:04:36)

0:21:43 (± 0:23:41)

1:02:37 (± 0:54:31)

0:18:00

Neurology (C)

1:21:20 (± 3:34:25)

1:42:22 (± 3:31:54)

1:39:35 (± 0:43:19)

0:35:00

Neurosurgery (C)

0:29:04 (± 1:22:21)

17:48 (± 0:39:11)

0:55:22 (± 1:08:10)

0:15:00

Orthopaedic Surgery (C)

0:48:18 (± 1:42:57)

29:48 (± 0:35:08)

1:34:35 (± 0:44:48)

0:24:00

Orthopaedic Surgery (G)

0:54:13 (± 1:51:18)

0:33:56 (± 1:03:10)

1:54:22 (± 0:41:08)

0:25:00

All Specialties

0:46:19 (± 1:17:51)

0:37:55 (± 2:20:12)

1:19:30 (± 0:50:27)

0:22:30