Weiss M, Marx G, Iber T. Generalizable items and modular structure for computerised physician staffing calculation on intensive care units. World J Crit Care Med 2017; 6(3): 153-163 [PMID: 28828300 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v6.i3.153]
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Manfred Weiss, MD, PhD, MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, D-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. Aug 4, 2017; 6(3): 153-163 Published online Aug 4, 2017. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v6.i3.153
Generalizable items and modular structure for computerised physician staffing calculation on intensive care units
Manfred Weiss, Gernot Marx, Thomas Iber
Manfred Weiss, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Gernot Marx, Klinik für Operative Intensivmedizin und Intermediate Care, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
Thomas Iber, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Klinikum Mittelbaden Baden-Baden/Bühl, D-76532 Baden-Baden, Germany
Author contributions: Weiss M, Marx G 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, Marx G 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 on ICUs including an Excel calculation sheet by the “Forum quality management and economics” focusing on quantitative and qualitative cornerstones for personnel requirement of physicians on ICUs.
Supported by the German Association of Anaesthesiologists (BDA) and the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (DGAI), in that BDA and DGAI sponsored meetings of the working group “personnel management” to create the physician staffing tools 2008 and 2012. Weiss M, Marx G and Iber T are members of the working group “personnel management of BDA and DGAI”.
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, PhD, MBA, Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, D-89081 Ulm, Germany. manfred.weiss@uni-ulm.de
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Received: November 13, 2016 Peer-review started: November 15, 2016 First decision: February 15, 2017 Revised: February 23, 2017 Accepted: April 24, 2017 Article in press: April 24, 2017 Published online: August 4, 2017 Processing time: 260 Days and 5.8 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: After 8 years of experience with the first calculation tool for physician staffing on intensive care units, generalizable key aspects are presented to help physicians all around the world to justify realistic personnel needs. A workload-oriented modular, flexible Excel-based calculation tool is presented, integrating quality of care, efficiency of processes, legal, educational, controlling, local, organisational and economic aspects. Staffing calculations reflect basic tasks (every patient), additional tasks (specific diagnostic and therapeutic requirements), non patient-oriented tasks, and, auxilliary calculations, such as minimal personnel staffing, distribution of personnel demand regarding type of employee due to working hours per year, shift work or standby duty.
