Tracking Device Guided Feedback to Enhance Patient Physician Interaction
Physician Patient Relation, Burnout, Professional
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Physician Patient Relation
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Cleveland Clinic Main Campus Internal Medicine resident or staff physician
Exclusion Criteria:
- Below the age of 18
Sites / Locations
- Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
No Intervention
Experimental
No Intervention
Pre-Intervention
Intervention
Post-Intervention
Phase 1 (Observational phase): All residents and staff physicians rotating through the inpatient medicine services during the first three (3) months, who agreed to be a part of the study, will be provided with Hill Rom tracking devices to quantify the time spent at the patient's bedside by each member as part of the daily practice.
Phase 2 (Intervention phase): The interventional phase will be six (6) months duration. During this period, the recorded time spent by the individual study participants at the patient's bedside will be compared to their respective peers, and percentile scores will be generated. Based on these percentile scores, the study participants will receive emails notifying them of the results. Participants whose scores fall in the lower 50th percentile will be encouraged to increase patient interaction times. Participants with scores in the top 50th percentile will receive congratulatory emails to encourage them to keep up the performance.
Phase 3: (Post Intervention observation phase): The final phase of the study will be again three (3) months. The intervention of feedback emails and text pages will be discontinued and the study participants will only be monitored to see if the past intervention made an impact on their daily clinical practice in terms of time spent with the patients.