Why the study?
Does changing anesthesia team composition, productivity, and concurrency affect the quality of anesthesia care?
Population
Anesthesia cases performed in a university hospital from 1992 to 1997
Comparison
Changing staffing patterns, increased… vs Lower productivity and concurrency levels…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1992 to 1997
Authors
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Higher productivity linked to fewer injuries but more critical incidents; leaves open optimal anesthesia team productivity.
Does changing anesthesia team composition, productivity, and concurrency affect the quality of anesthesia care?
Most aspects of anesthesia care quality were not negatively affected by increased productivity and concurrency, though critical incident reporting increased.
Posner et al. (1999) studied this question.
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