Duty Hours Tracking – Is There an App for That?

Autor: Alexis Jorgensen, Nastassia M. Savage, Xinxin Sun, Gregory Domson
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, Vol 9 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2382-1205
23821205
DOI: 10.1177/23821205221096350
Popis: BACKGROUND To monitor duty hour compliance residency programs have used self-report methods which can be skewed by recall bias and data falsification. The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of and resident attitudes towards two duty hours tracking tools within our Orthopedic residency. We compared our institution's current self-report method of duty hours tracking via New Innovations (NI) with an automated method utilizing Hours Tracker (HT), a smartphone application which automatically logs work hours via GPS coordinates. The primary outcome measures were number of duty hour violations and survey results on resident perceptions. METHODS The participants were 22 residents of our 25 resident Orthopedic program. Over four weeks, residents tracked duty hours through the standard, selfreport method (NI) and simultaneously through the automated app (HT). Residents also completed an anonymous survey at the end of the study related to perceptions of the methods. RESULTS There was no significant difference in overall number of violations between NI and HT. HT detected more violations of the 8 hours off requirement (12 vs. 5, p = 0.03). Survey data revealed residents found HT significantly easier to use (p = .004) and less burdensome (p
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