Design, application and testing of the Work Observation Method by Activity Timing (WOMBAT) to measure clinicians' patterns of work and communication.

CONCLUSIONS: This method efficiently produces reliable and valid data. The multi-dimensional nature of the data collected provides greater insights into patterns of clinicians’ work and communication than has previously been possible using other methods.
PMID: 18951838 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher] (Source: International Journal of Medical Informatics).