Hospital-Based Physician and APP Work Effort Practices Survey
Access detailed benchmarks on hospital-based work effort practices to inform your pay alignment and operational strategy.
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Insights Into Hospital-Based Scheduling and Work Effort
This survey provides insights into compensation topics specific to hospital-based physicians and APPs with a focus on understanding work effort and related compensation structures.
Survey Highlights
Work Effort Practices:
Demographics, including number of physician and APP FTEs
Clinical work effort standards, including shifts and hours required and off-site expectations
Paid time off and on-call practices
Specialty schedules
Specialty-specific practices
Key Details
Your time is valuable, which is why we’ve designed our survey systems to minimize your effort and provide an easy and flexible experience.
Data collected through our secure, online data collection.
Submit data once and qualify for all applicable surveys.
Prepopulated prior-year data whenever possible.
Submit compensation data through an Excel file upload.
Delegate survey tasks across your organization to other colleagues.
Enhanced multiphase auditing process helps to ensure data integrity and accuracy.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts on hand to assist with any questions.
Dedicated participant support team and subject matter experts to assist with any questions.
Exclusive participant pricing and bundles as well as early submission discounts.
Early access to benchmarks and pay practices reports.
Input on preferred topics for future surveys.
Access to pulse survey results covering hot topics.
Complimentary access to pay practices reports when submitting to those survey sections.
The work effort practices report is delivered via SullivanCotter’s web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite – providing users with self-serve analytics dashboards for their unique reporting needs.
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Key Dates:
Opens: Summer 2027
Closes: Fall 2027
Publication: Winter 2027
Current Status: Closed
Pricing Available in 2027
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The survey report includes a work effort practices report.
Pay practices reports are complimentary to organizations who have answered all questions labeled as required in the corresponding survey sections.
Our survey reports are delivered via our web-based Benchmarks360™ product suite.
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