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Data Collection (Does Multitasking Improve Performance? Evidence from the Emergency Department)

Researchers assembled the data from the emergency department at an East Coast metropolitan hospital for twelve consecutive quarters beginning in October 2004 and ending in September 2007. The data collection was supplemented with field observations and interviews with clinical staff. The data include information on each patient visit, the treatments and outcomes, and the level of multitasking for each emergency room physician. The sample size of patients was 145935.

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Updated 2021-07-27

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