Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 419-423, October 2007

Shifting Toward Balance: Measuring the Distribution of Workload Among Emergency Physician Teams

  • Scott Levin, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Perioperative Research in Quality, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Scott Levin, MS, Vanderbilt University, Center for Perioperative Research in Quality, 1211 21st Ave S, Ste 732, Nashville, TN 37212-1212; 301-404-7742, fax 615-936-7373
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  • Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN.
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  • Robin Hemphill, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Jin Han, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Jason Slagle, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Perioperative Research in Quality, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
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  • Daniel J. France, PhD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Perioperative Research in Quality, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Received 7 June 2006; received in revised form 21 December 2006 and 14 March 2007; accepted 6 April 2007. published online 13 June 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Robert L. Wears, MD, MS

 Author contributions: SL and DJF conceived and designed the study. DA, RH, and JH provided advice on data analyses and interpretation. DA provided access to and answered questions about the ED information system. SL drafted the article, and DA, RH, JH, JS, and DF contributed substantially to its revision. SL takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that may create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Mr. Levin is supported by the National Science Foundation, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program, and an Idaho National Laboratory Graduate Fellowship. Dr. Aronsky is partially supported by NLM 1R21 LM009002-01.

 Available online June 7, 2007.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)00452-0

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.04.007

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