Paging Patterns Among Junior Surgery Residents in a Tertiary Care Center

An excessive amount of nonurgent pages may disrupt patient care, reduce efficiency, and contribute to burnout. We present detailed paging data to analyze frequency, content, and urgency of pages received by surgery residents to provide recommendations to reduce resident distractions and fatigue. Prospective review of pages received by surgery residents over 15 weeks in 2019. Pages were analyzed by content and urgency (routine, important,...