No substitute for experience: do consultants that have been practising for longer lead faster post-take medical ward rounds?
Gill, D.; Gaunt, R.; Hamdulay, S.
Acute Medicine 12(3): 141-145
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4892 PMID: 24098870 Document Number: 13723
To ascertain whether consultants that have been practising for longer lead faster post-take medical ward rounds. Single-centre observational study of nine consultant physicians at morning post-take medical ward rounds at a district general hospital in the North West of London. Data were gathered from 25 post-take medical ward rounds. Multivariate regression analysis revealed that less time is spent per patient when consultants have been practising for longer (p<0.01), or have spent more time on the specialist register (p<0.01), with no discernible relation to the outcomes for the patients seen. This time is further reduced when a greater number of patients are seen on the ward round. More experienced consultant physicians conduct faster post-take medical ward rounds.
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