Patient-care time allocation by nurse practitioners and physician assistants in the intensive care unit

Table 1 Baseline time documentation

	Critical care	E/M	Procedure	Patient-care time	Time spent in nonbillable activities
CVICU-1	48%	4%	2%	54%	46%
NICU-1	56%	13%	6%	75%	25%
NICU-2	^a	^a	^a	^a	^a
CVICU-2	50%	5%	2%	57%	43%
SICU	20%	16%	3%	39%	61%
MICU-1	9%	1%	10%	20%	80%
MICU-2	38%	4%	1%	43%	57%
Total	40%	9%	4%	53%	47%

^aData not available. Nonbillable activities in the baseline period represented a combination of nonbillable patient-care activities and non-patient-care activities. CVICU, cardiovascular ICU; MICU, medical ICU; NICU, neurosciences ICU; SICU, surgical ICU.

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