Background: Physician work hours directly influence patient access to health care services
and play a vital role in physician human resource planning. We sought to evaluate long-term …

Context Recent trends in hours worked by physicians may affect workforce needs but have
not been thoroughly analyzed. Objectives To estimate trends in hours worked by US …

Importance Physician work hours are an underexplored facet of the physician workforce that
can inform policy for the rapidly changing health care labor market. Objective To examine …

Long work hours among physicians is a worldwide issue in the healthcare arena. Previous
studies have largely focused on the work hours of resident physicians rather than those of …

This paper employs a cohort analysis to examine the relative importance of different factors
in explaining changes in the number of hours spent in direct patient care by Canadian …

Background Information on the hours of work of UK doctors is limited, and what exists relies
on self-designed questionnaires in England. Aim To understand trends in the annual stock …

Background The gender gap in physician pay is often attributed in part to women working
fewer hours than men, but evidence to date is limited by self-report and a lack of detail …

• Although Canada's absolute physiciantopopulation ratio has increased and is at an historic
high, reports of physician shortages and inadequate patient access to physicians abound.• …

Although demographics, cohort, and contextual factors are expected to influence physician
supply at the intensive margin, much of the literature has examined the demographics and …

Background The culture of excessively long overtime work in Japan has not been recently
addressed. New legislation on working hours, including a limitation on maximum overtime …