Generalizable items and modular structure for computerised physician staffing calculation on intensive care units

Table 4 Total calculation of physician staffing on the intensive care unit

		Time demand per patient (min)
Patient days per year	5868
Caes per year	705
Public holidays/yr	11
Total amount
Numbers of "admissions"	705	Admission	65
Numbers of "daily routine"	5163	Daily routine	41
Numbers of "discharges/transferrals"	705	Discharge/transferral	25
Numbers of "handing over rounds monday - friday"	4019	Handing over round monday - friday	75
Numbers of "handing over rounds Sat, Sun, public hol."	1849	Handing over rounds Sat, Sun, public holidays	35
Total times
Time "takeover"	45825 min
Time "daily routine"	211683 min
Time "discharges/transferrals"	17625 min
Time "handing over rounds monday - friday"	301438 min
Numbers "handing over rounds Sat, Sun, public hol."	64709 min
Total time BT	641280 min
	10688 h
Total time AT	3339 h
Time demand (BT + AT)	14027 h
Time for non patient-oriented tasks	5348 h
Holidays for shift workers	205 h
Total time expenditure	19580 h
Rest allowance in %	19.5%
Total time expenditure plus rest allowance	23398 h
Working hours without break per day (h)	8.4
Standard weekly hours of FE in h	42
Annual net time per FE (h)	1691	Gross time per FE	2192 h
Number of FE	11.6	(net 1)
Number of beds	16
LS role	0.4	(0.15 FE/6 beds/net)
Leadership role h/yr	676	(hours for 0.15 FE/6 beds/net)
Number of physicians < 3 mo of ICU experience/yr	7
PT	2.1	(0.3 FE/physician < 3 mo ICU experience/year/net)
Postgraduate training hours per year	3550	(hours for 0.3 FE/physician < 3 mo ICU experience/yr/net)
Total time + leader ship, PT	23806	h
Number FE without continuing medical education	14.1	(net 2)
CME/SA (h)	704	50	(h/yr/FE)
Continuing medical education/staff appraisal in FE	0.4
Total time + LS, PT, CME, SA (net total)	24511	h
Number FE (net total)	14.5

BT: Basic tasks; AT: Additional tasks; FE: Full-time employee; LS: Leader ship role; PT: Postgraduate training; CME: Continuing medical education; SA: Staff appraisal.