More hours, more tired, more to do: results from the CMA's 2002 Physician Resource Questionnaire

Results of the CMA 2002 Physician Resource Questionnaire

• Personal computer use

• Personal Digital Assistant use

• Referring patients to medical Web sites

• Patients presenting medical information obtained on the Internet

• Practices with Web sites

• Personal Internet use

• Internet use by main location

• Internet access at the office or clinical practice

• Internet use at the office or clinical practice, by activity

• Office use of the Internet

Electronic Health Records

• Medium used for storage of active patient records

• Into electronic patient records

• Perceived importance of potential benefit of EHRs

Call

• Take call or shared call

• Shared call hours

• Shared call responsibilities

• Call type

• Ever paid for call

• Payment for call by type of service

• Compensation for medical services provided while on call

• On-call patients

• Time spent providing medical services while on call

Professional Activities

• Hours worked per week

• Patients per week

• Aspects of practice

• Change to method of practice

• Nature of change to method of practice

Practice Setting and Remuneration mode

• Practice Setting

• Nature of group practice

• Remuneration

• Remuneration Preferences

• Change to overhead expenses

• Change to net professional income

Marital Status

Childcare

Household maintenance