Work Characteristics of Acute Care Surgeons at a Swiss Tertiary Care Hospital: A Prospective One-Month Snapshot Study.

Claudine Di Pietro MartinelliTobias HaltmeierJoël L LavanchyStéphanie F PerrodinDaniel CandinasBeat Schnüriger

Published in: World journal of surgery (2021)

The three main activities 'surgery,' 'patient consultations' and 'administrative work' were comparable with approximately one third of the working time each. There was a bimodal temporal distribution for both surgery and patient consultations. These results may help to improve hospital resources and on-call rosters of ACS services.

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