What do hospital doctors and nurses think wastes their time?
Kamran Bagheri LankaraniSulmaz GhahramaniMarjan RoozitalabMohammadreza ZakeriBehnam HonarvarHengameh KasraeiPublished in: SAGE open medicine (2019)
Hospital working environment is complex, and opportunities for improvement of the efficiency of the nurses' and doctors' workload should be analyzed, case by case, in each hospital and work group. Process change (for the decrease in the wasted time for waiting in wards), simple innovative ways (for the decrease in the wasted time for searching the needed equipment), using hospital information system technology for documentation, communication, and the better design of the wards (to decrease the wasted time due to transfer between the ward and restroom) could be helpful for improving efficiency and for a safer and acceptable delivery of care.