Table 2
Classification of Data Analyst Work during 3.5 Years
| Category | Time (Hours) | Percent of Total Time | Amount of Time per Job (Hours) Median (Interquartile Range) |
| Administration | |||
| Meeting | 656 | 1.4 | 12 (2, 45) |
| Reporting | 853 | 1.8 | 4 (1, 4) |
| % subtotal | 3.2 | ||
| Clinical epidemiology | |||
| Prediction | 1,450 | 3.0 | 23 (3, 36) |
| Prevention | 482 | 1.0 | 24 (16, 38) |
| Prognosis | 196 | 0.4 | 11 (10, 23) |
| Risk | 628 | 133 | 16 (5, 79) |
| % subtotal | 5.7 | ||
| Clinical trials | |||
| Preliminary data | 583 | 1.2 | 6 (2, 13) |
| Subject monitoring | 1,194 | 2.5 | 23 (8, 90) |
| % subtotal | 3.7 | ||
| Disease | |||
| Asthma | 4,097 | 8.6 | 16 (4, 64) |
| Bone | 232 | 0.5 | 4 (3, 17) |
| Cancer | 1,188 | 2.5 | 8 (4, 35) |
| Diabetes | 2,026 | 4.3 | 15 (7, 58) |
| Gastrointestinal/hepatic | 406 | 0.8 | 41 (11, 46) |
| General | 1,220 | 2.6 | 5 (13, 48) |
| Heart | |||
| Coronary artery disease | 144 | 0.3 | 14 (6, 35) |
| Chronic heart failure | 3,642 | 7.7 | 8 (3, 37) |
| Hypertension | 530 | 1.1 | 9 (3, 41) |
| HIV | 510 | 1.1 | 5 (2, 10) |
| Kidney | 312 | 0.7 | 20 (10, 28) |
| Neurologic | 196 | 0.4 | 7 (3, 19) |
| Obstetric/gynecologic | 518 | 1.1 | 11 (5, 127) |
| Sexually transmitted disease | 1,586 | 3.3 | 169 (76, 248) |
| Skin | 49 | 0.1 | 24 (21, 28) |
| Thyroid | 94 | 0.2 | 18 (3, 23) |
| Tuberculosis | 51 | 0.1 | 51 (—, —) |
| % subtotal | 35.4 | ||
| Drug-related | |||
| Adverse drug event | 4,662 | 9.8 | 45 (12, 97) |
| General | 919 | 1.9 | 8 (12, 22) |
| Therapeutic drug monitoring | 217 | 0.5 | 7 (6, 204) |
| % subtotal | 12.2 | ||
| Economic | 257 | 0.5 | 25 (11, 52) |
| Geriatrics | 1,418 | 3.0 | 16 (4, 68) |
| Guideline implementation | 6,225 | 13.1 | 17 (5, 64) |
| International programs | 652 | 1.4 | 122 (73, 196) |
| Continuing education and training | |||
| Alone | 1,118 | 2.4 | 8 (2, 19) |
| Group | 2,888 | 6.1 | 29 (10, 112) |
| % subtotal | 8.5 | ||
| Pediatrics | 97 | 0.2 | 6 (1, 16) |
| Radiology | 73 | 0.2 | 21 (8, 21) |
| Surgery | 271 | 0.6 | 19 (10, 110) |
| Programming | |||
| Microsoft Access | 422 | 0.9 | 30 (2, 72) |
| VMS | 201 | 0.4 | 5 (3, 6) |
| % subtotal | 1.3 | ||
| Other | 5,297 | 11 | 71 (7, 144) |
| Total | 47,559 | 100 |
