Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Compere chu-rouen. This article was submitted to Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Medicine.
The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author s and the copyright owner s are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. Changes in the health system in Western countries have increased the scope of the daily tasks assigned to physicians', anesthetists included.
As already shown in other specialties, increased non-clinical burden reduces the clinical time spent with patients. This was a multicenter, prospective, observational study conducted in 6 public and private hospitals in France. The primary endpoint was the evaluation by an external observer of the time spent per day in minutes by anesthetists on clinical tasks in the operating room.
Secondary endpoints were the time spent per day in minutes on non-clinical organizational tasks and the number of task interruptions per hour of work. Between October and April , 54 anesthetists from six hospitals 1 public university hospital, two public general hospitals and three private hospitals were included. They were followed for 96 days corresponding to hours of work.
The number of task interruptions 1. Most time in the operating room was spent on clinical care with a significant contrast between public and private hospitals for organizational time. Keywords: clinical tasks, efficiency, anesthesia organization time, interruption task, anesthesia.
