Editorial
Managing capacity for urgent surgery: staffing, staff scheduling in-house or on-call from home, and work assignments
British journal of anaesthesia : BJA, Vol.128(3), pp.399-402
03/2022
DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2021.11.031
Abstract
Parmar and colleagues developed and validated a graphical method for choosing the number of operating theatres to set aside for urgent surgical cases. We address appropriate usage of their new method for calculating anaesthesia staffing, including comparison with previously published techniques. Parmar and colleagues' method is based on all staff scheduled in-house, rather than some on-call from home. We review that this is not nearly as large a limitation as it may seem because of behavioural factors of staff assignment.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Managing capacity for urgent surgery: staffing, staff scheduling in-house or on-call from home, and work assignments
- Creators
- Franklin Dexter - University of IowaRichard H Epstein - University of Miami
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Publication Details
- British journal of anaesthesia : BJA, Vol.128(3), pp.399-402
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bja.2021.11.031
- ISSN
- 0007-0912
- eISSN
- 1471-6771
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/16/2021
- Date published
- 03/2022
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984202142902771
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