How Canadian Hospitalists Spend Their Time— A Work-Sampling Study Within a Hospital Medicine Program in Ontario

Vandad Yousefi. Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management.2011;18(4):159-163Background: Despite significant growth of hospital medicine in Canada over the past decade, little is known about the characteristics of hospitalist pro- grams and how they operate.
Objective: To understand the type of activities hospitalists perform and the amount of time they spend on performing various tasks.