Weiss M, Rossaint R, Iber T. Generalizable items of quantitative and qualitative cornerstones for personnel requirement of physicians in anesthesia. World J Crit Care Med 2017; 6(2): 91-98 [PMID: 28529910 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v6.i2.91]
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Manfred Weiss, MD, MBA, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany. manfred.weiss@uni-ulm.de
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Critical Care Medicine
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Minireviews
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World J Crit Care Med. May 4, 2017; 6(2): 91-98 Published online May 4, 2017. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v6.i2.91
Generalizable items of quantitative and qualitative cornerstones for personnel requirement of physicians in anesthesia
Manfred Weiss, Rolf Rossaint, Thomas Iber
Manfred Weiss, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Rolf Rossaint, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Thomas Iber, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Klinikum Mittelbaden Baden-Baden/Bühl, 76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
Author contributions: Weiss M, Rossaint R and Iber T wrote the paper on behalf of the “Forum quality management and economics” of the German Association of Anaesthesiologists (BDA) and the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI); Weiss M, Rossaint R and Iber T were leading in the previous versions and the update and publications in German language of the calculation base for the personnel requirement of physicians in anesthesia including an Excel calculation sheet by the “Forum quality management and economics” focusing on quantitative and qualitative cornerstones for personnel requirement of physicians in anesthesia.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Authors declare no conflict of interests for this article.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Manfred Weiss, MD, MBA, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081 Ulm, Germany. manfred.weiss@uni-ulm.de
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Received: July 31, 2016 Peer-review started: August 1, 2016 First decision: October 20, 2016 Revised: January 2, 2017 Accepted: February 8, 2017 Article in press: February 9, 2017 Published online: May 4, 2017
Core Tip
Core tip: After 10 years of experience with the first calculation tool, generalizable key aspects and items of an updated calculation tool are presented to help physicians to justify realistic workload-oriented personnel staffing demands in anesthesia. A modular, flexible nature of a calculation tool allows adaption to the respective legal and organizational demands of different countries. A workload-oriented model is presented, integrating core working hours, shift work or standby duty, quality of care, efficiency of processes, legal, educational, controlling, local, organizational and economic aspects. Auxiliary tables reflect differing employee workload, non-patient oriented tasks, parental leave, prohibition of employment, or long-term illness.
