Journal article
Scheduling staff for ambulatory anaesthesia
Current opinion in anaesthesiology, Vol.35(6), p.679
12/01/2022
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001189
PMID: 36302207
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this study, we summarize six articles published from January 2020 through June 2022 covering anaesthesia staff scheduling and consider their relevance to ambulatory surgery. Staff scheduling refers to the planned shift length of each person working on specific dates. RECENT FINDINGS: Increasing shift lengths compensates for COVID-19 pandemic staffing issues by reducing patient queues and mitigating the impact of staff absence from SAR-CoV-2 infection. Reduced labour costs can often be achieved by regularly scheduling more practitioners than expected from intuition. Probabilities of unscheduled absences, estimated using historical data, should be incorporated into staff scheduling calculations. Anesthetizing locations, wherein anaesthesiologists are scheduled, may need to be revised if the practitioner is lactating to facilitate uninterrupted breast milk pumping sessions. If room assignments are based on the educational value for residents, then schedule other practitioners based on residents' expected work hours, not their planned shift lengths. Mixed integer programming can be used effectively to reduce variability among resident physicians in workloads during their rotations. SUMMARY: Readers can reasonably select among these studies and benefit from the one or two applicable to their facilities' characteristics and work hours.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Scheduling staff for ambulatory anaesthesia
- Creators
- Franklin DexterRichard H Epstein
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current opinion in anaesthesiology, Vol.35(6), p.679
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, WK Health
- DOI
- 10.1097/ACO.0000000000001189
- PMID
- 36302207
- ISSN
- 0952-7907
- eISSN
- 1473-6500
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2022
- Description audience
- Academic
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984307660302771
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