Lack of sensitivity of staffing for 8-hour sessions to standard deviation in daily actual hours of operating room time used for surgeons with long queues

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1910-1915

  Pandit, Jaideep J ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MANPOWER PLANNING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SURGEON; TURNOVER TIME; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; COST; ECONOMICS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPERATING ROOMS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 66349124416     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819fe7a4     Document Type: Article

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