Using Mean Anesthesia Workload to Plan Anesthesia Workforce Allocations: The "Flaw of Averages"

Yehuda Ginosar^{1

2}, Ariel Wimpfheimer³, Charles Weissman^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁴ Hospital Administration, Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

Editorial

Yehuda Ginosar et al. Anesth Analg. 2022.

. 2022 Dec 1;135(6):1138-1141.

doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000006220. Epub 2022 Nov 16.

Yehuda Ginosar^{1

2}, Ariel Wimpfheimer³, Charles Weissman^{2

4}

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center.
² Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁴ Hospital Administration, Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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