BACKGROUND: The learning atmosphere of hospital morning report is frequently interrupted by nonurgent beeper pages to participating residents. INTERVENTION: During 176 consecutive internal medicine morning reports, 1 of the 4 chief residents at a single academic medical center collected and answered house staff pages during the 30-minute conference. RESULTS: A total of 884 pages were answered during this period. Of these, 743 could wait until after the end of morning report, resulting in more than 4 interruptions averted per session. Over half of the pages were from nursing personnel. There was no significant decrease in the total number of pages or nurse pages during the observation period. DISCUSSION: In summary, our simple system of holding intern pages resulted in a dramatic reduction in interruptions during hospital morning report.
BACKGROUND: The learning atmosphere of hospital morning report is frequently interrupted by nonurgent beeper pages to participating residents. INTERVENTION: During 176 consecutive internal medicine morning reports, 1 of the 4 chief residents at a single academic medical center collected and answered house staff pages during the 30-minute conference. RESULTS: A total of 884 pages were answered during this period. Of these, 743 could wait until after the end of morning report, resulting in more than 4 interruptions averted per session. Over half of the pages were from nursing personnel. There was no significant decrease in the total number of pages or nurse pages during the observation period. DISCUSSION: In summary, our simple system of holding intern pages resulted in a dramatic reduction in interruptions during hospital morning report.
Authors: Luke Witherspoon; Emily Nham; Hamidreza Abdi; Ali Dergham; Thomas Skinner; J Stuart Oake; James Watterson; Luke T Lavallée Journal: BMC Health Serv Res Date: 2019-12-23 Impact factor: 2.655
Authors: Tyler J Albert; Joel Bradley; Helene Starks; Jeff Redinger; Cherinne Arundel; Albertine Beard; Laura Caputo; Jonathan Chun; Craig G Gunderson; Dan Heppe; Anand Jagannath; Kyle Kent; Michael Krug; James Laudate; Vignesh Palaniappan; Amanda Pensiero; Zaven Sargsyan; Emily Sladek; Matthew Tuck; Paul B Cornia Journal: J Gen Intern Med Date: 2021-06-25 Impact factor: 6.473