Trends in quality of anesthesia care associated with changing staffing patterns, productivity, and concurrency of case supervision in a teaching hospital

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 839-847

  Posner, Karen L ^a   Freund, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Complications; Patient safety; Workload

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SAFETY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; WORKLOAD;

ANESTHESIA; EFFICIENCY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0032860470     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199909000-00037     Document Type: Article

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