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Inpatient Attending Physician Rotation Duration Study

NCT00930111 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2023-07-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators are testing the effects of a change in teaching attending physicians' rotations (from 4- to 2-week blocks) on patient outcomes (unplanned urgent visits to the health care system, inpatient mortality, and length-of-stay), the educational experiences of residents and medical students and on the quality of the professional lives of the attending physicians.

Conditions

  • Inpatient Attending Physician Staffing Model

Interventions

OTHER

2-week rotation

Attending physician is assigned to a 2-week rotation.

OTHER

4-week rotation

Attending physician is assigned to a 4-week rotation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pamela Gonzalez Sr Director Clinical Research Office

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Brian Lucas, MD · Cook County Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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