Relationship between resident workload and self-perceived learning on inpatient medicine wards: a longitudinal study

Table 2 Parameter coefficients for learning vs. patient volume multivariate models

	Relationship Between Census and Learning				Relationship Between New Admissions and Learning
	R1's		R2's and R3's		R1's		R2's and R3's
	Beta coef.	p-value	Beta coef.	p-value	Beta coef.	p-value	Beta coef.	p-value
Acuity	.108	.006	.0605	.175	.0834	.279	.114	.191
Case Variety	.267	<.001	.264	<.001	.355	<.001	.192	.038
Census squared	-.0095	.018	-.0030	.144
Census	.0592	.194	.0393	.277
Optimal census	3.1		6.6
New admits squared					-.0151	.220	-.0146	.045
New admits					.0059	.955	.190	.022
Optimal new admits					None identified		6.5

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