If You Want It Done Right, Do It Yourself: Resident Data Collection on the Inpatient Service (Allison M Edwards)

Conclusion: Having concrete data allowed us to make positive changes to the manner in which our inpatient service was run. The use of hard data allowed the inpatient service to have a lower cap based on more liberal criteria along with a hard cap to medicine admissions. By presenting this data to the department of family medicine, there was the creation of an "overflow" service to allow high-census days to be split between two teams. Additionally, with the data showing the length of rounds, morning sign out was moved up 30 minutes. Next Steps: The next step in data collection and analysis is to measure if residents feel as though the family medicine inpatient service is a better experience following these changes that have been implemented.
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