Control chart monitoring of the numbers of cases waiting when anesthesiologists do not bring in members of call team

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 196-203

  Ledolter, Johannes ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^a,b   Wachtel, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROL CHART MONITORING; CUMULATIVE SUM CHART; HUMAN; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEWHART CHART; STATISTICAL MODEL; WAITING ROOM; ALGORITHM; ANESTHESIOLOGY; DOCUMENTATION; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIOLOGY; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; DOCUMENTATION; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING;

EID: 77954680384     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181cd6e88     Document Type: Article

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