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Hello Nazir, What are the statistics you collect on a daily basis. By running reports off these you should get a clear picture of who is doing what. We collect patient related info every day. (name, severity, diagnosis, #visits, units spent on assessment, treatment or consultation, stakeholders involved and the mode of contact (face to face, phone etc) We also record location of the treatment (e.g. which ward, unit etc). Further a whole slew of non patients data (general admin, education, supervision,stats, travel etc). I can run reports looking at specific therapists caseload, productivity. Or general trends like number of minutes per specific diagnosis or location of treatment.) Productivity is very relative :) Obviously someone involved in high needs clients will see less clients (or visits ) in a day. And your stats should show this. What is more important is variance. And this is what I look at. Why does someone in a similar position (similar clients etc) seeing only half the clients etc. Productivity is not always the number of people you see. Everyone has teabreaks, peebreaks, walking from room to room etc. A general rule of 80 % accounted time for patient care for a clinical therapist is what I use. Then there are guidelines (set by the colleague, derived from history (stats) and collaboration with staff) for IP/ OP peds etc., but I do not look at that a lot unless there are real problems with someone. Units are not used for billing yet! (this is Canada :)) Hope this helps Maarten (supervisor PT) Canada At 10:10 PM 5/31/02 -0400, you wrote: >Hello > >I am looking for information on how productivity of Physical Therapists is >measured in acute care, inpatient settings. For reasons of comparison, >ours is a 900 bed acute care facility and most inpatient P.T. is provided >at the bedside. The practice environment is ICU to General Practice Units. >I am specifically interested in finding out if any acute care P.T. >departments make any specific accommodations for P.T.'s practicing in ICU >where the patient care issues are complex and time consuming. > >Generally, is the measure of productivity measured in billable units of >time or the number of pt. visits per day or any other ways? > >Also has any one tried creative ways of staffing ( personnel/hours) that >seems to work best. > >Thanks in advance for any responses. > >Nazir Ahmed P.T. >MI, USA.