Using Relative Value Units to Measure Faculty Clinical Productivity

The objective of this project was to compare faculty productivity in teaching and nonteaching clinical settings. We hypothesized that teaching activity would have no impact on productivity. A mixed model, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze average relative value units (RVUs)...

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Published in:Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM 1997-11, Vol.12 (11), p.715-717
Main Authors: Albritton, T. Andrew, Miller, Max D., EdD, Johnson, Maribeth H., Rahn, Daniel W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Clinics
Codes
Efficiency, Organizational
faculty productivity
Faculty, Medical
Health participants
Humans
Internal medicine
Medical sciences
Outpatient care facilities
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Patients
Physicians
Productivity
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Reimbursement
Relative Value Scales
relative value units
resident training
student education
Students
Teaching
Variance analysis
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Summary:The objective of this project was to compare faculty productivity in teaching and nonteaching clinical settings. We hypothesized that teaching activity would have no impact on productivity. A mixed model, repeated measures analysis of variance was used to analyze average relative value units (RVUs) billed and to test for differences between clinics. Data were drawn from 4,956 clinical encounters made within a student, resident, and faculty clinic. Average RVUs per visit were similar in the three settings. Resident supervision increased faculty productivity, while student supervision had no impact on billed RVUs. Thus, RVUs can be used as a measure of faculty clinical productivity in different settings in an academic medical center. Precepting students does not appear to affect clinical productivity.
ISSN:0884-8734
1525-1497
DOI:10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.07146.x