Anesthesiology
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Care provided by specialist obstetric anaesthetists/anesthesiologists is associated with a lower rate of general anaesthesia for cesarean delivery than generalist care.
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Review
Measuring Clinical Productivity of Anesthesiology Groups: Surgical Anesthesia at the Facility Level.
Benchmarking and comparing group productivity is an essential activity of data-driven management. For clinical anesthesiology, accomplishing this task is a daunting effort if meaningful conclusions are to be made. ⋯ Additional productivity components (total ASA units/h, h/case, h/operating room/d) allow for leaders to develop productivity dashboards. With the emergence of large groups that provide care in multiple facilities, these large groups can choose to invest more effort in collecting data and comparing facility productivity internally with group-defined measurements including total ASA units per full time equivalent.