Defining Clinical Effort for Hospital-based Pediatricians

Every academic medical center aims for excellence in patient care, teaching and research; this includes quality and safe patient care, patient and family satisfaction, provider engagement and wellness, and cost-efficient utilization of resources. Optimal staffing schedules are important in reaching these aspirations. Creating a hospital-based physician staffing model has been problematic because no universally agreed-upon method to measure physician work effort or productivity exists. Allocating inpatient physician staff equitably may be particularly challenging when there is unpredictable variation in the clinical service from shift to shift.

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