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January 22, 2004Anesthesiology

Quantifying Net Staffing Costs Due to Longer-than-average Surgical Case Durations

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Population

Data collected from two anesthesiology departments in academic hospitals for 1 year, excluding anesthesia…

Design

Other

Follow-up

1 year

Authors

AAAmr E. AbouleishFDFranklin DexterCWCharles W. Whitten

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Overview

Longer surgical durations may substantially raise anesthesiology staffing costs; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve net finances across settings.

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Population
Data collected from two anesthesiology departments in academic hospitals for 1 year, excluding anesthesia care performed outside the main surgical suite and services not billed with American Society of Anesthesiologists units.
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Intervention
A method to quantify net anesthesia staffing costs by comparing staffing solutions based on actual surgical durations versus national average surgical durations.
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Outcome
Net annual staffing costs attributable to longer surgical durations (staffing costs minus the revenue produced by longer durations).

Longer-than-average surgical durations can substantially increase net staffing costs for anesthesiology departments, with the financial impact heavily dependent on staff compensation levels and payer mix.

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Abouleish et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a865e93ae12ed54832fe02chttps://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-200402000-00033
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