A national study of medical and surgical specialties. II. Description of the survey instrument
R. C. Mendenhall, J. S. Lloyd, P. A. Repicky, J. R. Monson, R. A. Girard and S. Abrahamson
The survey instrument used in the national study of physician activities
conducted by the University of Southern California, Division of Research in
Medical Education, is a log-diary in which physicians kept a record of
their actual professional activities. The log-diary focused on use of
physician time and patient encounters and employed numerical coding of
activities and patient encounters in a highly structured format. Compared
with instruments used in similar studies, this log-diary appears to gather
a greater breadth and depth of information about physician practice
patterns.
