2024
Afonso AM, Caldwell JB, Staffa SJ, Sinskey JL, Vinson AE. U.S. attending anesthesiologist burnout in the postpandemic era. Anesthesiology 140:38-51, 2024
Brown MM, Brown GC, Smith MR. Educational costs expended and career incomes in advanced healthcare professions. AANA Journal 92:7-16, 2024
Chen F, Belgique ST, Canter C, Boscardin CK, Willie C, Mitchell JD, Sullivan K, Martinelli SM. Unprofessionalism in anesthesiology: a qualitative study on classifying unprofessional behavior in anesthesiology residency education. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 95:111429, 2024
Deshur MA, Ben-Isvy N, Wang C, Locke AR, Minhaj M, Greenberg SB. A dynamic marketplace for distributing anesthesia call: a quality improvement initiative. Journal of Medical Systems 48:34, 2024
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Hindman BJ. Association between an anesthesia department development program for junior faculty and long-term production of publications: A longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 92:111308, 2024
Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Bayman EO, Mueller RN.
Patient and operational factors do not substantively affect the annual departmental quality of anesthesiologists’ clinical supervision and nurse anesthetists’ work habits.
Cureus 16:e55346, 2024
Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Thenuwara K.
Lack of benefit of adjusting adaptively daily invitations for the evaluation of the quality of anesthesiologists’ supervision and nurse anesthetists’ work habits.
Cureus 15:e49661, 2023
Hanmer SB, Tsai MH, Sherrer DM, Pandit JJ. Modelling the economic constraints and consequences of anaesthesia associate expansion in the UK National Health Service: a narrative review. British Journal of Anaesthesia 132:867-876, 2024
Mahmoudi S, Yazdani A, Hasan Shiri F. Psychometric testing of anesthesia nursing competence scale (AnestComp). Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 34:100368, 2024
Warren MH, Mehta S, Glowka L, Goncalves O, Gutman E, Schonberger RB. Improving anesthesia start time documentation through a departmental education initiative at Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, United States. Cureus 16:e54351, 2024
2023
Abouleish AE, Whitten CW, Hudson ME. Measuring and comparing clinical productivity of individual anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology 139:684-696, 2023
Akavipat P, Suraseranivongse S, Yimrattanabowon P, Sriraj W, Ratanachai P, Summart U. Algorithmic prediction of anaesthesia manpower quantity needs: a multicentre study. Journal of Perioperative Practice 33:282-292, 2023
Burke H, Cantees K, Lebovitz E, Hudson M. Quantifying provider team efficiency and its relationship to OR cost and other OR metrics. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 32:100322, 2023
Chen AJ, Munnich EL, Parente ST, Richards MR. Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules. Journal of Public Economics 218:104812, 2023
Deshur MA, Ben-Isvy N, Wang C, Minhaj M, Greenberg S. A quality improvement study designed to optimize scheduling geographic/site preferences among anesthesia professionals utilizing decision support tool assistance. Journal of Medical Systems 47:51, 2023
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Thenuwara KN. Long-term capacity planning for obstetric surgical suites using quantile linear regression. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 51:178-184, 2023
Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Epstein RH. Overall anesthesia department quality of clinical supervision of trainees over a year evaluated using mixed effects models. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 87:111114, 2023
Epstein RH, Mueller DA, Walco JP, Manresa CD, Banks SE, Freundlich RE. Development and validation of an automated tool to retrieve and curate faculty publications of academic departments. Cureus 15: e47976, 2023
Galvano AN, Ippolito M, Noto A, Lakbar I, Einav S, Giarratano A, Cortegiani A. Nighttime working as perceived by Italian anesthesiologists: a secondary analysis of an international survey. Journal of Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care 3:32, 2023
Hallet J, Jerath A, Perez d'Empaire P, Eskander A, Carrier F, McIsaac DI, Turgeon AF, Idestrup C, Flexman A, Lorello G, Darling G, Kidane B, Kaliwal Y, Barabash V, Coburn N, Sutradhar R. The association between hospital high-volume anesthesiology care and patient outcomes for complex gastrointestinal cancer surgery: a population-based study. Annals of Surgery 278:e503-e510, 2023
Hallet J, Sutradhar R, Jerath A, d'Empaire PP, Carrier FM, Turgeon AF, McIsaac DI, Idestrup C, Lorello G, Flexman A, Kidane B, Kaliwal Y, Chan WC, Barabash V, Coburn N, Eskander A. Association between familiarity of the surgeon-anesthesiologist dyad and postoperative patient outcomes for complex gastrointestinal cancer surgery. JAMA Surgery 158:465-473, 2023
Hurt GM, Dexter F. Narrative review of mathematical and psychological studies of staff scheduling for holidays as applicable to anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 88:111142, 2023
Ituk U, Mueller R. Implementation and evaluation of an event reporting system in an academic anaesthesia department. BMJ Open Quality 12:e002389, 2023
Janda AM, Vaugn MT, Colquhoun DA, Mentz G, Buehler K, Nathan H, Regenbogen SE, Syrjamaki J, Kheterpal S, Shah N. Does anesthesia quality improvement participation lead to incremental savings in a surgical quality collaborative population? A retrospective observational study. Anesthesia & Analgesia 137:1093-1103, 2023
Jankowska AE, Pai SL, Lee JK, Austin TM, Nyshadham S, Diachun CAB, Byerly SI, Hertzberg LB, Berenstain LK. Gender disparity in the effects of COVID-19 on academic productivity and career satisfaction in anesthesiology in the US: Results of a national survey of anesthesiologists. Gender, Work & Organization 30:1741-1758, 2023
Khalafi A, Sarvi Sarmeydani N, Adarvishi S. Workplace health in anesthesia team: a qualitative study in Iran. Frontiers in Public Health 11:1141447, 2023
Kim S, Lou SS, Baratta LR, Kannampallil T. Classifying clinical work settings using EHR audit logs: a machine learning approach. American Journal of Managed Care 29:e24-e30, 2023
Kraul S, Brunner JO. Stable annual scheduling of medical residents using prioritized multiple training schedules to combat operational uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research 309:1263-1278, 2023
Louër R, Szeto M, Grasfield R, McClain CD, Urman RD, Brovman EY. Trends in pediatric non-operating room anesthesia: data from the national anesthesia clinical outcomes registry. Paediatric Anaesthesia 33:446-453, 2023
Robertson AC, Shi Y, Shotwell MS, Fowler LC, Tiwari V, Freundlich RE. Automated emails to improve evening staffing for anesthesiologists. Journal of Medical Systems 47:22, 2023
Simkin S, Orser BA, Wilson CR, Bourgeault IL. The anesthesia workforce in Canada: a methodology to identify physician anesthesia providers using health administrative data. Human Resources for Health 21:34, 2023
Simkin S, Orser BA, Wilson CR, McVicar JA, Crozier M, Bourgeault IL. The physician anesthesia workforce in Canada from 1996 to 2018: a longitudinal analysis of health administrative data. Anesthesia & Analgesia 137:1128-1134, 2023
Sun K, Sun M, Agrawal D, Dravenstott R, Rosinia F, Roy A. Equitable anesthesiologist scheduling under demand uncertainty using multi-objective programming. Production and Operations Management 32:3699-3716, 2023
Vandeberg MT, Kraus M, Misra L, Hertzberg L, Buckner-Petty S, Padmanabhan A, Tollinche LE, Milam AJ. Racial disparities in compensation among US anesthesiologists: results of a national survey of anesthesiologists. Anesthesia & Analgesia 137:268-276, 2023
2022
Brazier A, Larson E, Xu Y, Judah G, Egan M, Burd H, Darzi A. ‘Dear Doctor’: a randomised controlled trial of a text message intervention to reduce burnout in trainee anaesthetists. Anaesthesia 77:405-415, 2022
Burns ML, Saager L, Cassidy RB, Mentz G, Mashour GA, Kheterpal S. Association of anesthesiologist staffing ratio with surgical patient morbidity and mortality. JAMA Surgery 157:807-815, 2022
Compère V, Besnier E, Clavier T, Byhet N, Lefranc F, Jegou F, Sturzenegger N, Hardy JB, Dureuil B, Elie T. Evaluation of the time spent by anesthetist on clinical tasks in the operating room. Frontiers in Medicine 8:768919, 2022
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marian AA.
Association between the community prevalence of COVID 19 and daily unscheduled absences of anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and residents in an academic anesthesia department.
Cureus 14:e30730, 2022
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Öhrvik J, Hindman BJ.
Binomial entropy of anesthesiologists’ ratings of nurse anesthetists’ clinical performance explains information loss when adjusting evaluations for rater leniency.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 27:100247, 2022
Gal JS, Morewood GH, Mueller JT, Popovich MT, Caridi JM, Neifert SN. Anesthesia provider performance in the first two years of merit-based incentive payment system: shifts in reporting and predictors of receiving bonus payments. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 76:110582, 2022
Hadler RA, Dexter F, Hindman BJ.
Effect of insufficient interaction on the evaluation of anesthesiologists' quality of clinical supervision by anesthesiology residents and fellows.
Cureus 14:e23500, 2022
Im M, Riley ET, Hoang D, Lim G, Zakowski M, Carvalho B. Obstetric anesthesia procedure-based workload and facility utilization of Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Centers of Excellence designated institutions. Anesthesia & Analgesia 135:1138-1141, 2022
Jabali SH, Shaalan OR, Alosaimi MM, Daabiss MA. Considering simulation training to ensure patient safety for expert anesthesiologists over the age of 60 in Saudi Arabia. Indian Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 9:254-262, 2022
Lea J, Doherty I, Reede L, Mahoney CB. Predictors of burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover among CRNAs during COVID-19 surging. AANA Journal 90:141-147, 2022
Lustik SJ, Stern DH, Eaton MP. Optimum call distribution: market-based approach. Anesthesia & Analgesia 135:663-666, 2022
McMullan SP, Raju D, Patrician PA. The psychometric analysis of the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Workload Perception Scale (CWPS): final phase. Journal of Nursing Measurement 30:331-344, 2022
Meersch M, Weiss R, Küllmar M, Bergmann L, Thompson A, Griep L, Kusmierz D, Buchholz A, Wolf A, Nowak H, Rahmel T, Adamzik M, Haaker JG, Goettker C, Gruendel M, Hemping-Bovenkerk A, Goebel U, Braumann J, Wisudanto I, Wenk M, Flores-Bergmann D, Böhmer A, Cleophas S, Hohn A, Houben A, Ellerkmann RK, Larmann J, Sander J, Weigand MA, Eick N, Ziemann S, Bormann E, Gerß J, Sessler DI, Wempe C, Massoth C, Zarbock A. Effect of intraoperative handovers of anesthesia care on mortality, readmission, or postoperative complications among adults: the HandiCAP randomized clinical trial. JAMA 327:2403-2412, 2022
Rath S, Rajaram K. Staff planning for hospitals with implicit cost estimation and stochastic optimization. Production and Operations Management 31:1271-1289, 2022
Ridgeon E, Wilson K, Wilkinson D, Douglass P, Elrefaey A. Defining complexity in anaesthesia: description and validation of the Oxford Anaesthetic Complexity (OxAnCo) score. Anaesthesia 77:1251-1258, 2022
Sellers C, Penfold N, Gass C, Drennan VM. The experience of working with anaesthesia associates in the United Kingdom and the impact on medical anaesthetic training. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 37:2767-2778, 2022
Shahbaz S, Zakar R, Fischer F, Howard N. Professional obstacles to anaesthesiology practice in Punjab, Pakistan: qualitative study of consultant anaesthesiologists’ perspectives. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19:13427, 2022
Stone AB, Dasani SS, Grant MC, Nascimben L, Bader AM. Understanding the economic impact of an essential service: applying time-driven activity-based costing to the hospital airway response team. Anesthesia and Analgesia 134:445-453, 2022
Sun LY, Jones PM, Wijeysundera DN, Mamas MA, Bader Eddeen A, O'Connor J. Association between handover of anesthesiology care and 1-year mortality among adults undergoing cardiac surgery. JAMA Network Open 5:e2148161, 2022
Titler SS, Dexter F.
Feasibility of anesthesiologists giving nurse anesthetists 30-minute lunch breaks and 15-minute morning breaks at a university’s facilities.
Cureus 14:e25280, 2022
Turkelson C, Campbell D, Reilly C, Novak J. Maximizing mobilization of resources for unplanned certified registered nurse anesthetist staffing deficiencies in a large midwest multi-hospital trauma center. AANA Journal 90:105-113, 2022
2021
Afonso AM, Cadwell JB, Staffa SJ, Zurakowski D, Vinson AE. Burnout rate and risk factors among anesthesiologists in the United States. Anesthesiology 134:683-696, 2021
Chu E, Hindle AK, Abeledo H, Amdur R, Coudert A, Gill G, Heinz ER, Lee KM, Moy G, Schroff C, Sherman M, Berger JS. An equitable electronic scheduling system for anesthesiology residents: a quality improvement project. The Journal of Education in Perioperative Medicine 23:E665, 2021
Dexter F, Abouleish A, Marian AA, Epstein RH. The anesthetizing sites supervised to anesthesiologist ratio is an invalid surrogate for group productivity in academic anesthesia departments when used without consideration of the corresponding managerial decisions. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 71:110194, 2021
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Elhakim M, O’Sullivan C.
US survey of the incidence of and reasons for nurse anesthetists leaving or having considered leaving their jobs.
AANA Journal 89:484-490, 2021
Fraifeld A, Rice AN, Stamper MJ, Muckler VC. Intraoperative waste segregation initiative among anesthesia personnel to contain disposal costs. Waste Management 122:124-131, 2021
Gafsou B, Becq MC, Michelet D, Julien-Marsollier F, Brasher C, Dahmani S. Determinants of work-related quality of life in French anesthesiologists. Anesthesia and Analgesia 133:863-872, 2021
Hertzberg LB, Miller TR, Byerly S, Rebello E, Flood P, Malinzak EB, Doyle CA, Pease S, Rock-Klotz JA, Kraus MB, Pai SL. Gender differences in compensation in anesthesiology in the United States: results of a national survey of anesthesiologists. Anesthesia and Analgesia 133:1009-1018, 2021
Hyman SA, Card EB, De Leon-Casasola O, Shotwell MS, Shi Y, Weinger MB. Prevalence of burnout and its relationship to health status and social support in more than 1000 subspecialty anesthesiologists. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 46:381-387, 2021
Kannampallil T, Lew D, Pfeifer EE, Sharma A, Abraham J. Association between paediatric intraoperative anaesthesia handover and adverse postoperative outcomes. BMJ Quality and Safety 30:755-763, 2021
Law TJ, Subhedar S, Bulamba F, O'Hara NN, Nabukenya MT, Sendagire C, Hewitt-Smith A, Lipnick MS, Tumukunde J. Factors affecting job choice among physician anesthesia providers in Uganda: a survey of income composition, discrete choice experiment, and implications for the decision to work rurally. Human Resources for Health 19:93, 2021
Love ER, Dexter F, Reminick JI, Karan SB.
Reducing over-interviewing in the anesthesiology residency match.
Cureus 13:e17538, 2021
Love ER, Dexter F, Reminick JI, Sanford JA, Karan S.
Interview data highlight importance of "same-state" on anesthesiology residency match.
Anesthesia and Analgesia 132:223-230, 2021
Saager L, Ruetzler K, Turan A, Maheshwari K, Cohen B, You J, Mascha EJ, Qiu Y, Ince I, Sessler DI. Do it often, do it better: association between pairs of experienced subspecialty anesthesia caregivers and postoperative outcomes. A retrospective observational study. Anesthesia and Analgesia 132:866-877, 2021
Sessler DI, Khan MZ, Maheshwari K, Liu L, Adegboye J, Saugel B, Mascha EJ. Blood pressure management by anesthesia professionals: evaluating clinical skill from electronic medical records. Anesthesia and Analgesia 132:946-956, 2021
Titler SS, Dexter F, Epstein RH.
Impact of anesthesia resident staff assignment decisions on nurse anesthetist and anesthesia resident staff scheduling and productivity: tutorial using data from a pediatric hospital.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 24:100182, 2021
Titler SS, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Suggested work guidelines, based on operating room data, for departments with a breast milk pumping supervising anesthesiologist. Breastfeeding Medicine 16:573-578, 2021
Wilson LA, Poeran J, Liu J, Zhong H, Memtsoudis SG. State of the anaesthesia workforce in the United States: trends and geographic variation in nurse anaesthetist to physician anaesthesiologist ratios. British Journal of Anaesthesia 126:e19-e21, 2021
Ziemann S, Coburn M, Rossaint R, Van Waesberghe J, Bürkle H, Fries M, Henrich M, Henzler D, Iber T, Karst J, Kunitz O, Löb R, Meißner W, Meybohm P, Mierke B, Pabst F, Schaelte G, Schiff J, Soehle M, Winterhalter M, Kowark A. Implementation of anesthesia quality indicators in Germany: a prospective, national, multicenter quality improvement study. Der Anaesthesist 70:38-47, 2021
2020
Abarca TL, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Pearson ACS.
Hospitals’ web site lists of their interventional pain procedures inadequately reflect the diversity of their actual pain medicine practices.
Pain Physician 23:E723-E730, 2020
Abouleish AE, Hudson ME, Levy RS, Whitten CW. Industry-wide survey of academic anesthesiology departments provides up-to-date benchmarking data on surgical anesthesia productivity. Anesthesia and Analgesia 131:885-892, 2020
Block RI, Bair HL, Carillo JF. Is exhaustion more sensitive than disengagement to burnout in academic anesthesia? A study using the Oldenburg Burnout Inventory. Psychological Reports 123:1282-1296, 2020
Carter JC, Garden AL. The gap between attitudes and processes related to ‘family-friendly’ practices in anaesthesia training in New Zealand: a survey of anaesthesia supervisors of training and departmental directors. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 48:454-464, 2020
Dexter F, Bayman EO, Wong CA, Hindman BJ. Reliability of ranking anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists using leniency-adjusted clinical supervision and work habits scores. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 61:109639, 2020
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Marian AA.
Comparisons of unscheduled absences among categories of anesthesia practitioners, including anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and anesthesia residents.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 21:100139, 2020
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Rodriguez LI.
Decline of pediatric ambulatory surgery cases performed at Florida general hospitals between 2010 and 2018: an historical cohort study.
Anesthesia and Analgesia 131:1557-1565, 2020
Dexter F, Hadlandsmyth K, Pearson ACS, Hindman BJ.
Reliability and validity of performance evaluations of pain medicine clinical faculty by residents and fellows using a supervision scale.
Anesthesia and Analgesia 131:909-916, 2020
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wong CA, Hindman BJ.
Association between leniency of anesthesiologists when evaluating certified registered nurse anesthetists and when evaluating didactic lectures.
Health Care Management Science 23:640-648, 2020
Dobie KH, Tiwari V, Shi Y, Shotwell MS, Sandberg WS. Transition from private to academic anesthesia provision changes process and patient centered outcomes in an ambulatory surgery center. Journal of Medical Systems 44:204, 2020
Elhakim M, Dexter F, Fahy BG.
Changes in current employment positions after taking an operating room management course content by physicians and non-physicians and potential use of the content.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 20:100097, 2020
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Heitz JW, McNulty SE.
Implications of anesthesiology resident availability on first-case staffing.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 21:100098, 2020
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Pearson ACS.
Pain medicine board certification status among physicians performing interventional pain procedures in the State of Florida between 2010 and 2016.
Pain Physician 23:E7-E18, 2020
Hannan EL, Samadashvili Z, Sundt TM, Girardi L, Chikwe J, Wechsler A, Adams DH, Smith CR, Gold JP, Lahey SJ, Jordan D. Association of anesthesiologist handovers with short-term outcomes for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Anesthesia and Analgesia 131:1883-1889, 2020
Hascall AL, Roberts EK, Lisco SJ, Schulte TE. Multi-modal system checks in an attempt to eliminate narcotic discrepancies. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 21:100138, 2020
Hu J, Yang Y, Li X, Yu L, Zhou Y, Fallacaro MD, Wright S. Adverse outcomes associated with intraoperative anesthesia handovers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 35:525-532.e1, 2020
Jeon Y, Meretoja R, Vahlberg T, Leino-Kilpi H. Developing and psychometric testing of the anaesthesia nursing competence scale. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 26:866-878, 2020
Kraul S. Annual scheduling for anesthesiology medicine residents in task-related programs with a focus on continuity of care. Flexible Services and Manufacturing 32:181-212, 2020
Kraus MB, Dexter F, Patel PV, Dodd SE, Thomson HM, Girardo ME, Hertzberg LB, Pearson ACS.
Motherhood and anesthesiology: a survey of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 130:1296-1302, 2020
Kroll H, Monroe KS, Van Harn MG, Davies NA, Jesse MT. Burnout in certified anesthesiologist assistants. Journal of Allied Health 49:e73-e78, 2020
Mills A, Sorensen A, Gillen E, Coomer NM, Theis E, Scope S, Beadles C, Quraishi J. Quality, costs, and policy: factors influencing choice of anesthesia staffing models. Journal of Healthcare Management 65:45-60, 2020
Mumbwe MC, McIsaac D, Jarman A, Bould MD. A cross-sectional survey to determine the prevalence of burnout syndrome among anesthesia providers in Zambian hospitals. Anesthesia and Analgesia 130:310-317, 2020
Qin CX, Merkel KR, Yesantharao LV, Lau EK, Phelps MA, Kajstura TJ, Grant MC, Frank SM, Cho BC. Poor cost awareness among anesthesia providers for medications, supplies, and blood products. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 46:524-530, 2020
Shanthanna H, Bhatia A, Radhakrishna M, Belley-Cote E, Vanniyasingam T, Thabane L, Busse JW. Interventional pain management for chronic pain: a survey of physicians in Canada. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 67:343-352, 2020
Zdravkovic M, Osinova D, Brull SJ, Prielipp RC, Simões CM, Berger-Estilita J. Perceptions of gender equity in departmental leadership, research opportunities, and clinical work attitudes: an international survey of 11 781 anaesthesiologists. British Journal of Anaesthesia 124:e160-e170, 2020
2019
Abouleish AE, Hudson ME, Whitten CW. Measuring clinical productivity of anesthesiology groups: surgical anesthesia at the facility level. Anesthesiology 130:336-348, 2019
Danhakl V, Miltiades A, Ing C, Chang B, Edmondson D, Landau R, Gallos G. Observational study evaluating obstetric anesthesiologist residents’ wellbeing, anxiety and stress in a North American academic program. International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 38:75-82, 2019
Denny NA, Guyer JM, Schroeder DR, Marienau MS. Operating room waste reduction. AANA Journal 87:477-482, 2019
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Wong CA, O'Brien MK, Hindman BJ. Nurse anesthetists' preferences for anesthesiologists' participation in patient care at a large teaching hospital. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 57:131-138, 2019
Dexter F, Osman BM, Epstein RH.
Improving intraoperative handoffs for ambulatory anesthesia: Challenges and solutions for the anesthesiologist.
Local and Regional Anesthesia 12:37-46, 2019
Dolan JE, Lonsdale H, Ahumada LM, Patel A, Samuel J, Jalali A, Peck J, DeRosa JC, Rehman M, Varughese AM, Fernandez AM. Quality initiative using theory of change and visual analytics to improve controlled substance documentation discrepancies in the operating room. Applied Clinical Informatics 10:543-551, 2019
Dony P, Seidel L, Pirson M, Forget P. Anaesthesia care team improves outcomes in surgical patients compared with solo anaesthesiologist: an observational study. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 36:64-69, 2019
Elhakim M, Dexter F, Pearson ACS. US critical access hospitals’ listings of pain medicine physicians and other clinicians performing interventional pain procedures. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 58:52-54, 2019
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Diez C, Potnuru P.
Determination of geolocations for anesthesia specialty coverage and standby call allowing return to the hospital within a specified amount of time.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 129:1265-1272, 2019
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Maratea EA. Unscheduled absences in a cohort of nurse anesthetists during a 3-year period: Statistical implications for the identification of outlier personnel. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 52:1-5, 2019
Fügener A, Brunner JO. Planning for overtime: the value of shift extensions in physician scheduling. INFORMS Journal on Computing 31:732-744, 2019
Gross CN, Brunner JO, Blobner M. Hospital physicians can't get no long-term satisfaction - an indicator for fairness in preference fulfillment on duty schedules. Health Care Management Science 22:691-708, 2019
Hoyem RL, Quraishi JA, Jordan L, Wiltse Nicely KL. Advocacy, research, and anesthesia practice models: key studies of safety and cost-effectiveness. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice 20:193-204, 2019
Kraul S, Fügener A, Brunner J, Blobner M. A robust framework for task-related resident scheduling. European Journal of Operational Research 276:656-675, 2019
Lubarsky DA, French MT, Gitlow HS, Rosen LF, Ullmann SG. Why money alone can't (always) "nudge" physicians: the role of behavioral economics in the design of physician incentives. Anesthesiology 130:154-170, 2019
McClelland L, Plunkett E, McCrossan R, Ferguson K, Fraser J, Gildersleve C, Holland J, Lomas JP, Redfern N, Pandit JJ. A national survey of out-of-hours working and fatigue in consultants in anaesthesia and paediatric intensive care in the UK and Ireland. Anaesthesia 74:1509-1523, 2019
McCormick PJ, Yeoh C, Vicario-Feliciano RM, Ervin K, Tan KS, Yang G, Mehta M, Tollinche L. Improved compliance with anesthesia quality measures after implementation of automated monthly feedback. Journal of Oncology Practice 15:e583-e592, 2019
Muffly M, Scheinker D, Muffly T, Singleton M, Agarwal R, Honkanen A. Practice characteristics of board-certified pediatric anesthesiologists in the US: a nationwide survey. Cureus 11(9):e5745, 2019
O’Brien MK, Dexter F, Kreiter CD, Slater-Scott C, Hindman BJ. Nurse anesthetists’ evaluations of anesthesiologists’ operating room performance are sensitive to anesthesiologists’ years of postgraduate practice. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 54:102-110, 2019
O'Connell C, Dexter F, Mauler DJ, Sun EC.
Trends in direct hospital payments to anesthesia groups: a retrospective cohort study of nonacademic hospitals in California.
Anesthesiology 131:534-542, 2019
Pearson ACS, Dexter F.
Observational study of the distribution and diversity of interventional pain procedures among hospitals in the State of Iowa.
Pain Physician 22:e157-e170, 2019
Pearson ACS, Dodd SE, Kraus MB, Ondecko Ligda KM, Hertzberg LB, Chandrabose RK. Pilot survey of female anesthesiologists' childbearing and parental leave experiences. Anesthesia & Analgesia 128:e109-e112, 2019
Perella P, Palmer E, Conway R, Wong DJN. A retrospective analysis of case-load and supervision from a large anaesthetic logbook database. Anaesthesia 74:1524-1533, 2019
Pozdnyakova A, Tung A, Dutton R, Wazir A, Glick DB. Factors affecting patient satisfaction with their anesthesiologist: an analysis of 51,676 surveys from a large multihospital practice. Anesthesia & Analgesia 129:951-959, 2019
Umutesi G, McEvoy MD, Starnes JR, Sileshi B, Atieli HE, Onyango K, Newton MW. Safe anesthesia care in Western Kenya: a preliminary assessment of the impact of nurse anesthetists at multiple levels of government hospitals. Anesthesia & Analgesia 129:1387-1393, 2019
Zhou Y, Sun H, Macario A, Keegan MT, Patterson AJ, Minhaj MM, Wang T, Harman AE, Warner DO. Association between participation and performance in MOCA minute and actions against the medical licenses of anesthesiologists. Anesthesia and Analgesia 129:1401-1407, 2019
2018
Chai JX, Chong SY. Production pressures among anaesthesiologists in Singapore. Singapore Medical Journal 59:271-278, 2018
Dexter F, Jarvie C, Epstein RH.
Years versus days between successive surgeries, after an initial outpatient procedure, for the median patient versus the median surgeon in the State of Iowa.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 126:787-793, 2018
DiMeglio M, Furey W, Laudanski K. Content analysis of locum tenens recruitment emails for anesthesiologists. BMC Health Services Research 18:981, 2018
Jones PM, Cherry RA, Allen BN, Jenkyn KMB, Shariff SZ, Flier S, Wijeysundera DN. Association between handover of anesthesia care and adverse postoperative outcomes among patients undergoing major surgery. JAMA 319:143-153, 2018
Li H, Zuo M, Gelb AW, Zhang B, Zhao X, Yao D, Xia D, Huang Y. Chinese anesthesiologists have high burnout and low job satisfaction: A cross-sectional survey. Anesthesia & Analgesia 126:1004-1012, 2018
Matava CT, Magbitang J, Choi S, Bhatia S, Tan M. A novel open-source novel app improves anesthesia operating room equipment supply. Journal of Medical Systems 42:167, 2018
Sarraf E, Breidenstein MW, Carslon RE, O'Donnell SE, Tsai MH. Nonoperating room anesthesia tardiness. A & A Practice 2018;11:285-287
Stuetzle KV, Pavlin BI, Smith NA, Weston KM. Survey of occupational fatigue in anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand. Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 46:414-423, 2018
Sun EC, Dutton RP, Jena AB. Comparison of anesthesia times and billing patterns by anesthesia practitioners. JAMA Network Open 7:e184288, 2018
Sun EC, Miller TR, Moshfegh J, Baker LC. Anesthesia care team composition and surgical outcomes. Anesthesiology 129:700-709, 2018
Sundqvist AS, Anderzén-Carlsson A, Nilsson U, Holmefur M. Protective nursing advocacy: translation and psychometric evaluation of an instrument and a descriptive study of Swedish registered nurse anesthetists' beliefs and actions. Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing 33:58-68, 2018
Wanderer JP, Nelson SE, Hester DL, Shotwell M, Sandberg WS, Anderson-Dam J, Raines DE, Ehrenfeld JM. Sources of variation in anesthetic drug costs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 126:1241-1248, 2018
2017
Ashengo T, Skeels A, Hurwitz EJH, Thuo E, Sanghvi H. Bridging the human resource gap in surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource countries: a review of the task sharing literature. Human Resources for Health 15:77-77, 2017
Baker K, Haydar B, Mankad S. A feedback and evaluation system that provokes minimal retaliation by trainees. Anesthesiology 126:327-337, 2017
Bayman EO, Dexter F, Ledolter J.
Mixed effects logistic regression modeling of daily evaluations of nurse anesthetists’ work habits adjusting for leniency of the rating anesthesiologists.
Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 6:14-19, 2017
Boyd D, Poghosyan L. Measuring certified registered nurse anesthetist organizational climate: instrument adaptation. Journal of Nursing Measurement 25:224-237, 2017
Dexter F, Bayman EO, Dexter EU.
Monte Carlo simulations comparing Fisher exact test and unequal variances t test for analysis of differences between groups in brief hospital lengths of stay.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 125:2141-2145, 2017
Dexter F, Epstein RH. For assessment of changes in intraoperative red blood cell transfusion practices over time, the pooled incidence of transfusion correlates highly with total units transfused. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 39:53-56, 2017
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Epstein R, Hindman BJ.
Operating room anesthesia subspecialization is not associated with significantly greater quality of supervision of anesthesia residents and nurse anesthetists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 124:1253-1260, 2017
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Hindman BJ. Validity of using a work habits scale for the daily evaluation of nurse anesthetists’ clinical performance while controlling for the leniencies of the rating anesthesiologists. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 42:63-68, 2017
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Hindman BJ.
Measurement of faculty anesthesiologists’ quality of clinical supervision has greater reliability when controlling for the leniency of the rating anesthesia resident: a retrospective cohort study.
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 64:643-655, 2017
Dexter F, Szeluga D, Hindman BJ.
Content analysis of resident evaluations of faculty anesthesiologists: supervision encompasses some attributes of the professionalism core competency.
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 39:53-56, 2017
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Gratch DM, Lubarsky DA. Intraoperative handoffs among anesthesia providers increase the incidence of documentation errors for controlled drugs. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 43:396-402, 2017
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Schwenk ES.
Hypotension during induction of anaesthesia is neither a reliable nor useful quality measure for comparison of anaesthetists’ performance.
British Journal of Anaesthesia 119:106-114, 2017
Gabriel RA, Burton BN, Tsai MH, Ehrenfeld JM, Dutton RP, Urman RD. After-hour versus daytime shifts in non-operating room anesthesia environments: national distribution of case volume, patient characteristics, and procedures. Journal of Medical Systems 41:40, 2017
Görges M, West NC, Whyte SD. Using physiological monitoring data for performance feedback: an initiative using thermoregulation metrics. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 64:245-251, 2017
Green A, Tatham KC, Yentis SM, Wilson J, Cox M. An analysis of the delivery of anaesthetic training sessions in the United Kingdom. Anaesthesia 72:1327-1333, 2017
Greig PR, Higham HE, Darbyshire JL, Vincent C. Go/no-go decision in anaesthesia: wide variation in risk tolerance amongst anaesthetists. British Journal of Anaesthesia 118:740-746, 2017
Hubbard RM, Hayanga JA, Quinlan JJ, Soltez AK, Hayanga HK. Optimizing anesthesia-related waste disposal in the operating room: a brief report. Anesthesia & Analgesia 125:1289-1291, 2017
Jelacic S, Craddick K, Nair BG, Bounthavong M, Yeung K, Kusulos D, Knutson JA, Somani S, Bowdle A. Relative costs of anesthesiologist prepared, hospital pharmacy prepared and outsourced anesthesia drugs. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 36:178-183, 2017
Logvinov II, Dexter F, Hindman BJ, Brull SJ. Anesthesiologists' perceptions of minimum acceptable work habits of nurse anesthetists. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 38:107-110, 2017
McGain F, Story D, Lim T, McAlister S. Financial and environmental costs of reusable and single-use anaesthetic equipment. British Journal of Anaesthesia 118:862-869, 2017
Nagrebetsky A, Gabriel RA, Dutton RP, Urman RD. Growth of nonoperating room anesthesia care in the United States: a contemporary trends analysis. Anesthesia & Analgesia 124:1261-1267, 2017
Phelps M, Latif A, Thomsen R, Slodzinski M, Raghavan R, Paul SL, Stonemetz J. Comparison of minute distribution frequency for anesthesia start and end times from an anesthesia information management system and paper records. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing 31:845-850, 2017
Roberts RJ, Wilson AE, Quezado Z. Using lean six sigma methodology to improve quality of the anesthesia supply chain in a pediatric hospital. Anesthesia & Analgesia 124:922-924, 2017
Sileshi B, Newton MW, Kiptanui J, Shotwell MS, Wanderer JP, Mungai M, Scherdin J, Harris PA, Vermund SH, Sandberg WS, McEvoy MD. Monitoring anesthesia care delivery and perioperative mortality in Kenya utilizing a provider-driven novel data collection tool. Anesthesiology 127:250-271, 2017
Tsai MH, Cipri LA, O'Donnell SE, Fisher JM, Andritsos DA. Scheduling non-operating room anesthesia cases in endoscopy: Using the sandbox analogy. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 40:1-6, 2017
Tsai MH, Huynh TT, Breidenstein MW, O'Donnell SE, Ehrenfeld JM, Urman RD. A system-wide approach to physician efficiency and utilization rates for non-operating room anesthesia sites. Journal of Medical Systems 41:112, 2017
Villafranca A, Hamlin C, Enns S, Jacobsohn E. Disruptive behavior in the perioperative setting: a contemporary review. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 64:128-140, 2017
Wong T, Tsai MH, Urman RD. The expansion of non-operating room anesthesia services. Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management 9:39-42, 2017
Zhou Y, Sun H, Culley DJ, Young A, Harman AE, Warner DO. Effectiveness of written and oral specialty certification examinations to predict actions against the medical licenses of anesthesiologists. Anesthesiology 126:1171-1179, 2017
2016
Ard JL Jr, Tobin K, Huncke T, Kline R, Ryan SM, Bell C. A survey of the American Society of Anesthesiologists regarding environmental attitudes, knowledge, and organization. A & A Case Reports 6:208-216, 2016
Atcheson CL, Spivack J, Williams R, Bryson EO. Preventable drug waste among anesthesia providers: opportunities for efficiency. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 30:24-32, 2016
Bayman EO, Dexter F, Todd MM.
Prolonged operative time to extubation is not a useful metric for comparing the performance of individual anesthesia providers.
Anesthesiology 124:322-338, 2016
Boggs S, Frost E, Feinleib J. Anesthesiologists as operating room directors: results of a survey. International Journal of Anesthetics and Anesthesiology 3:041, 2016
Chen Y, Cai A, Fritz BA, Dexter F, Pryor KO, Jacobsohn E, Glick DB, Willingham MD, Escallier KE, Winter AC, Avidan MS.
Amnesia of the operating room in the B-Unaware and BAG-RECALL clinical trials.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:1158-1168, 2016
Connor CW, Herzig M. Monitoring the location of staff via mobile devices in a large multifacility practice group. A & A Case Reports 6:320-328, 2016
Dexter F, De Oliveira Jr. GS, McCarthy RJ.
First job search of residents in the United States: a survey of anesthesiology trainees’ interest in academic positions in cities distant from previous residences.
A & A Case Reports 6:34-38, 2016
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Dutton RP, Kordylewski H, Ledolter J, Rosenberg H, Hindman BJ.
Diversity and similarity of anesthesia procedures in the United States during and among regular work hours, evenings, and weekends.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 123:1567-1573, 2016
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Hindman BJ.
Quantifying the diversity and similarity of surgical procedures among hospitals and anesthesia providers.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:251-263, 2016
Dexter F, Szeluga D, Masursky D, Hindman BJ.
Written comments made by anesthesia residents when providing below average scores for the supervision provided by the faculty anesthesiologist.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:2000-2006, 2016
Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Epstein RH.
Decreasing the hours that anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetists work late by making decisions to reduce the hours of over-utilized operating room time.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:831-842, 2016
French KE, Guzman AB, Rubio AC, Frenzel JC, Feeley TW. Value based care and bundled payments: anesthesia care costs for outpatient oncology surgery using time-driven activity-based costing. Healthcare 4:173-180, 2016
Hyder JA, Bohman JK, Kor DJ, Subramanian A, Bittner EA, Narr BJ, Cima RR, Montori VM. Anesthesia care transitions and risk of postoperative complications. Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:134-144, 2016
Pandit JJ. Pensions, tax and the anaesthetist: significant implications for workforce planning. Anaesthesia 71:883-891, 2016
Schonberger RB, Dutton RP, Dai F. Is there evidence for systematic upcoding of ASA physical status coincident with payer incentives? A regression discontinuity analysis of the National Anesthesia Clinical Outcomes Registry. Anesthesia & Analgesia 122:243-250, 2016
Schulte TE, Roberts EK, Birch K, Lisco SJ. Assessing electronic interruptions experienced by an anesthesiology clinical director. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 34:658-660, 2016
Terekhov MA, Ehrenfeld JM, Dutton RP, Guillamondegui OD, Martin BJ, Wanderer JP. Intraoperative care transitions are not associated with posteroperative adverse outcomes. Anesthesiology 125:690-699, 2016
Yamamoto S, Tanaka P, Madsen MV, Macario A. Analysis of resident case logs in an anesthesiology residency program. A & A Case Reports 6:257-262, 2016
2015
Baird M, Daugherty L, Kumar KB, Arifkhanova A. Regional and gender differences and trends in the anesthesiologist workforce. Anesthesiology 123:997-1012, 2015
Bayman EO, Dexter F, Todd MM.
Assessing and comparing anesthesiologists' performance on mandated metrics using a Bayesian approach.
Anesthesiology 123:101-115, 2015
Bucx MJ, Landman JJ, van Onzenoort HA, Kox M, Scheffer GJ. A simple intervention to reduce the anesthetic pharmacy budget; the effect of price list stickers placed on vaporizers. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 27:307-310, 2015
Cohen B, Ogorek D, Oifa S, Cattan A, Matot I. Smart marketing may improve public understanding of the anesthesia profession. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research 4:16, 2015
De Oliveira GS Jr, Dexter F, Bialek JM, McCarthy RJ.
Reliability and validity of assessing subspecialty level of faculty anesthesiologists' supervision of anesthesiology residents.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 120:209-213, 2015
Dexter F, Dutton RP, Kordylewski H, Epstein RH.
Anesthesia workload nationally during regular workdays and weekends.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 121:1600-1603, 2015
Dexter F, Epstein RH.
Associated roles of perioperative medical directors and anesthesia: hospital agreements for operating room management.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 121:1469-1478, 2015
Dexter F, Hindman BJ.
Quality of supervision as an independent contributor to an anesthesiologist's individual clinical value.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 121:507-513, 2015
Dexter F, Masursky D, Hindman BJ.
Reliability and validity of the anesthesiologist supervision instrument when certified registered nurse anesthetists provide scores.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 120:214-219, 2015
Dexter F, Rosenberg H, Epstein RH, Semo JJ, Litman RS.
Implications of national anesthesia workload on the staffing of a call center: the malignant hyperthermia consultant hotline.
A & A Case Reports 5:43-46, 2015
Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Todd MM, Hindman BJ.
The "fourth mission": the time commitment of anesthesiology faculty for management is comparable to their time commitments to education, research, and indirect patient care.
A & A Case Reports 5:206-211, 2015
Domen R, Connelly CD, Spence D. Call-shift fatigue and use of countermeasures and avoidance strategies by certified registered nurse anesthetists: a national survey. AANA Journal 83:123-131, 2015
Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Smith TC.
Anesthesia residents' global (departmental) evaluation of faculty anesthesiologists' supervision can be less than their average evaluations of individual anesthesiologists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 120:204-208, 2015
Hyder JA, Niconchuk J, Glance LG, Neuman MD, Cima RR, Dutton RP, Nguyen LL, Fleisher LA, Bader AM. What can the national quality forum tell us about performance measurement in anesthesiology? Anesthesia & Analgesia 120:440-448, 2015
Meseroll BK, Apatov NM, Rutledge CM. The noncompete clause and the nurse anesthetist: an assessment of knowledge, perception, and experience. AANA Journal 83:329-335, 2015
Quick AK, Macario A, Brock-Utne JG, Jaffe RA, Kadry B. A case illustrating the costs of quality improvement: nine months to move needles and syringes on the anesthesia cart. A & A Case Reports 5:88-90, 2015
Sakai T, Emerick TD, Patel RM. A retrospective review of required projects in systems-based practice in a single anesthesiology residency: a 10-year experience. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 27:451-456, 2015
Sun EC, Dexter F, Macario A, Miller TR, Baker LC.
No significant association between anesthesia group concentration and private insurer payments in the United States.
Anesthesiology 123:507-514, 2015
Tabing AK, Ehrenfeld JM, Wanderer JP. Limiting the accessibility of cost-prohibitive drugs reduces overall anesthetic drug costs: a retrospective before and after analysis. Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 62:1045-1054, 2015
Terekhov MA, Ehrenfeld JM, Wanderer JP. Predictions are not meaningfully improved by including the Surgical Apgar Score: an analysis of the risk quantification index and present-on-admission risk models. Anesthesiology 123:1059-1066, 2015
Wanderer JP, Shi Y, Schildcrout JS, Ehrenfeld JM, Epstein RH. Supervising anesthesiologists cannot be effectively compared according to their patients' postanesthesia care unit admission pain scores. Anesthesia & Analgesia 120:923-932, 2015
Wang JO, Li CY, Kao S, Yeh TC, Arens JF, Ho ST. Factors associated with Taiwan anesthesiologists’ intention to leave anesthesia practice. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association 114:509-516, 2015
2014
Deal LG, Nyland ME, Gravenstein N, Tighe P. Are anesthesia start and end times randomly distributed? The influence of electronic records. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 26:264-270, 2014
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Hindman BJ.
Bernoulli cumulative sum (CUSUM) control charts for monitoring of anesthesiologists' performance in supervising anesthesia residents and nurse anesthetists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 119:679-685, 2014
Dexter F, Ledolter J, Smith TC, Griffiths D, Hindman BJ.
Influence of provider type (nurse anesthetist or resident physician), staff assignments, and other covariates on daily evaluations of anesthesiologists' quality of supervision.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 119:670-678, 2014
Dexter F, Wachtel RE.
Strategies for net cost reductions with the expanded role and expertise of anesthesiologists in the Perioperative Surgical Home.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 118: 1062-1071, 2014
Dexter F, Wachtel RE. Scheduling for anesthesia at geographic locations remote from the operating room. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 27:426-430, 2014
Elmblad R, Kodjebacheva G, Lebeck L. Workplace incivility affecting CRNAs: a study of prevalence, severity, and consequences with proposed interventions. AANA Journal 82:437–445, 2014
Epstein RH, Dexter F, Lopez MG, Ehrenfeld JM.
Anesthesiologist staffing considerations consequent to the temporal distribution of hypoxemic episodes in the postanesthesia care unit.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 119:1322-1333, 2014
Gaszynska E, Stankiewicz-Rudnicki M, Szatko F, Wieczorek A, Gaszynski T. Life satisfaction and work-related satisfaction among anesthesiologists in Poland. The Scientific World Journal 2014:601865, 2014
Lyk-Jensen HT, Jepsen RMHG, Spanager L, Dieckmann P, Østergaard D. Assessing nurse anaesthetists' non-technical skills in the operating room. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 58:794-801, 2014
Saager L, Hesler BD, You J, Turan A, Mascha EJ, Sessler DI, Kurz A. Intraoperative transitions of anesthesia care and postoperative adverse outcomes. Anesthesiology 121:695-706, 2014
Sinclair DR, Lubarsky DA, Vigoda MM, Birnbach DJ, Harris EA, Behrens V, Bazan RE, Williams SM, Arheart K, Candiotti KA. A matrix model for valuing anesthesia service with the resource-based relative value system. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare 7:449-458, 2014
2013
Afonso AM, Diaz JH, Scher CS, Beyl RA, Nair SR, Kaye AD. Measuring determinants of career satisfaction of anesthesiologists: validation of a survey instrument. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 25:289-295, 2013
Backeris ME, Patel RM, Metro DG, Sakai T. Impact of a productivity-based compensation system on faculty clinical teaching scores, as evaluated by anesthesiology residents. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 25:209-213, 2013
Dexter F, Logvinov II, Brull SJ.
Anesthesiology residents’ and nurse anesthetists’ perceptions of effective clinical faculty supervision by anesthesiologists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 116:1352-1355, 2013
Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Kreiter CD, Wachtel RE.
Determinants, associations, and psychometric properties of resident assessments of faculty operating room supervision in a US anesthesia residency program.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 116:1342-1351, 2013
Hindman BJ, Dexter F, Todd MM.
Research, education, and nonclinical service productivity of new junior anesthesia faculty during a 2-year faculty development program.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 117:194-204, 2013
Kynes JM, Schildcrout JS, Hickson GB, Pichert JW, Han X, Ehrenfeld JM, Westlake MW, Catron T, Jacques PS. An analysis of risk factors for patient complaints about ambulatory anesthesiology care. Anesthesia & Analgesia 116:1325-1332, 2013
Sakai T, Hudson M, Davis P, Williams J. Integration of academic and clinical performance-based faculty compensation plans: a system and its impact on an anaesthesiology department. British Journal of Anaesthesia 111:636-650, 2013
Schott NJ, Emerick TD, Metro DG, Sakai T. The cost of resident scholarly activity and its effect on resident clinical experience. Anesthesia & Analgesia 117:1211-1216, 2013
Sigakis MJ, Bittner EA, Wanderer JP. Validation of a risk stratification index and risk quantification index for predicting patient outcomes: in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, 1-year mortality, and length-of-stay. Anesthesiology 119:525-540, 2013
Smallman B, Dexter F, Masursky D, Li F, Gorji R, George D, Epstein RH.
Role of communication systems in coordinating supervising anesthesiologists’ activities outside of operating rooms.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 116:898-903, 2013
2012
Epstein RH, Dexter F.
Influence of supervision ratios by anesthesiologists on first-case starts and critical portions of anesthetics.
Anesthesiology 116:683-691, 2012
Orkin FK, McGinnis SL, Forte GJ, Peterson MD, Schubert A, Katz JD, Berry AJ, Cohen NA, Holzman RS, Jackson SH, Martin DE, Garfield JM. United States anesthesiologists over 50: Retirement decision making and workforce implications. Anesthesiology 117:953-963, 2012
Schubert A, Eckhout GV, Ngo AL, Tremper KK, Peterson MD. Status of the anesthesia workforce in 2011: Evolution during the last decade and future outlook. Anesthesia & Analgesia 115:407-427, 2012
Steiner JW, Pop RB, You J, Hoang SQ, Whitten CW, Barden C, Szmuk P. Anesthesiology residents' medical school debt influence on moonlighting activities, work environment choice, and debt repayment programs: a nationwide survey. Anesthesia & Analgesia 115:170-175, 2012
Wachtel RE, Dexter F. Training rotations at hospitals as a recruitment tool for certified registered nurse anesthetists. AANA Journal 80:S45-S48, 2012
Walker P, Pekmezaris R, Lesser ML, Nouryan CN, Rosinia F, Pratt K, LaVopa C. A multisite validity study of self-reported anesthesia outcomes. American Journal of Medical Quality 27:417-425, 2012
2011
Dalton JE, Kurz A, Turan A, Mascha EJ, Sessler DI, Saager L. Development and validation of a risk quantification index for 30-day postoperative mortality and morbidity in noncardiac surgical patients. Anesthesiology 114:1336-1344, 2011
Dexter F, Maguire D, Epstein RH.
Observational study of anaesthetists' fresh gas flow rates during anaesthesia with desflurane, isoflurane and sevoflurane.
Anaesthesia & Intensive Care 39:460-464, 2011
Hauschild I, Vitzthum K, Klapp BF, Groneberg DA, Mache S. Time and motion study of anesthesiologists' workflow in German hospitals. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 161:433-440, 2011
Kalist DE, Molinari NA, Spurr SJ. Cooperation and conflict between very similar occupations: the case of anesthesia. Health Economics, Policy and Law 6:237-264, 2011
Kheterpal S, Tremper KK, Shanks A, Morris M. Brief report: workforce and finances of the United States anesthesiology training programs: 2009-2010. Anesthesia & Analgesia 112:1480-1486, 2011
Koetsier E, Boer C, Loer SA. Complaints and incident reports related to anaesthesia service are foremost attributed to nontechnical skills. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 28:29-33, 2011
Meeusen VC, Van Dam K, Brown-Mahoney C, Van Zundert AA, Knape HT. Understanding nurse anesthetists' intention to leave their job: How burnout and job satisfaction mediate the impact of personality and workplace characteristics. Health Care Management Review 36:155-163, 2011
Scurlock C, Dexter F, Reich DL, Galati M.
Needs assessment for business strategies of anesthesiology groups' practices.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 113:170-174, 2011
2010
De Oliveira GS Jr, Ahmad S, Stock MC, Harter RL, Almeida MD, Fitzgerald PC, McCarthy RJ. High incidence of burnout in academic chairpersons of anesthesiology: should we be taking better care of our leaders? Anesthesiology 114:181-193, 2010
Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Epstein RH, Ledolter J, Todd MM.
Analysis of operating room allocations to optimize scheduling of specialty rotations for anesthesia trainees.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 111:520-524, 2010
Hadjipavlou M, Bailey CR. The price of everything and the value of nothing: cost awareness in anaesthesia. Journal of Perioperative Practice 20:446-450, 2010
Hogan PF, Seifert RF, Moore CS, Simonson BE. Cost effectiveness analysis of anesthesia providers. Nursing Economics 28:159-169, 2010
Pandit JJ, Tavare AN, Millard P. Why are there local shortfalls in anaesthesia consultant staffing? A case study of operational workforce planning. Journal of Health Organization and Management 24:4-21, 2010
Wachtel RE, Dexter F.
Curriculum providing cognitive knowledge and problem-solving skills for anesthesia systems-based practice.
Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2:624-632, 2010
2009
Brunner JO, Bard JF, Kolisch R. Flexible shift scheduling of physicians. Health Care Management Science 12:285-305, 2009
Dexter F, Epstein RH, Elgart RL, Ledolter J.
Forecasting and perception of average and latest hours worked by on-call anesthesiologists.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 109:1246-1252, 2009
Ferrera MH, Beaman ST, Metro DG, Handley LJ, Walker JE Jr. What is an anesthesiology resident worth? Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 21:317-321, 2009
Kheterpal S, Tremper K, Shanks A, Morris M. Seventh and eighth year follow-up on workforce and finances of the United States anesthesiology training programs: 2007 and 2008. Anesthesia & Analgesia 109:897-899, 2009
Kheterpal S, Tremper KK, Shanks A, Morris M. Six-year follow-up on work force and finances of the United States anesthesiology training programs: 2000 to 2006. Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:263-272, 2009
Lindfors PM, Heponiemi T, Meretoja OA, Leino TJ, Elovainio MJ. Mitigating on-call symptoms through organizational justice and job control: a cross-sectional study among Finnish anesthesiologists. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 53:1138-1144, 2009
Lindfors PM, Meretoja OA, Luukkonen RA, Elovainio MJ, Leino TJ. Attitudes to job turnover among Finnish anaesthetists. Occupational Medicine 59:126-129, 2009
Masursky D, Dexter F, Garver MP, Nussmeier NA.
Incentive payments to academic anesthesiologists for late afternoon work did not influence turnover times.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:1622-1626, 2009
Merwin E, Stern S, Jordan LM, Bucci M. New estimates for CRNA vacancies. AANA Journal 77:121-129, 2009
Mets B, Galford JA. Leadership and management of academic anesthesiology departments in the United States. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 21:81-93, 2009
Wachtel RE, Dexter F, Dow AJ.
Growth rates in pediatric diagnostic imaging and sedation.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 108:1616-1621, 2009
Wax DB, Schaecter J. Cost awareness among anesthesia practitioners at one institution. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 21:547-550, 2009
2008
Berry M, Berry-Stölzle T, Schleppers A. Operating room management and operating room productivity: the case of Germany. Health Care Management Science 11:228-239, 2008
Dexter F, Epstein RH.
Calculating institutional support that benefits both the anesthesia group and hospital.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:544-553, 2008
Kooij FO, Klok T, Hollmann MW, Kal JE. Decision support increases guideline adherence for prescribing postoperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis. Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:893-898, 2008
Masursky D, Dexter F, Nussmeier NA.
Operating room nursing directors' influence on anesthesia group operating room productivity.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 107:1989-1996, 2008
Masursky D, Dexter F, O’Leary CE, Applegeet C, Nussmeier NA.
Long-term forecasting of anesthesia workload in operating rooms from changes in a hospital’s local population can be inaccurate.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 106:1223-1231, 2008
Reich DL, Galati M, Krol M, Bodian CA, Kahn RA. A mission-based productivity compensation model for an academic anesthesiology department. Anesthesia & Analgesia 107:1981-1988, 2008
2007
Dexter F, Xiao Y, Dow AJ, Strader MM, Ho D, Wachtel RE.
Coordination of appointments for anesthesia care outside of operating rooms using an enterprise-wide scheduling system.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 105:1701-1710, 2007
Kheterpal S, Gupta R, Blum JM, Tremper KK, O'Reilly M, Kazanjian PE. Electronic reminders improve procedure documentation compliance and professional fee reimbursement. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:592-597, 2007
O’Sullivan CT, Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Vigoda MM. Evidence-based management assessment of return on investment from anesthesia information management systems. AANA Journal 75:43-48, 2007
Paoletti X, Marty J. Consequences of running more operating theatres than anaesthetists to staff them: a stochastic simulation study. British Journal of Anaesthesia 98:462-469, 2007
Parker BM, Henderson JM, Vitagliano S, Nair BG, Petre J, Maurer WG, Roizen MF, Weber M, DeWitt L, Beedlow J, Fahey B, Calvert A, Ribar K, Gordon S. Six sigma methodology can be used to improve adherence for antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:140-146, 2007
Spring SF, Sandberg WS, Anupama S, Walsh JL, Driscoll WD, Raines DE. Automated documentation error detection and notification improves anesthesia billing performance. Anesthesiology 106:157-163, 2007
Tremper KK, Shanks A, Morris M. Five-year follow-up on the work force and finances of United States anesthesiology training programs: 2000 to 2005. Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:1157-1170, 2007
Wachtel RE, Dexter EU, Dexter F.
Application of a similarity index to state discharge abstract data to identify opportunities for growth of surgical and anesthesia practices.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 104:863-868, 2007
2006
Davis EA, Escobar A, Ehrenwerth J, Watrous GA, Fisch GS, Kain ZN, Barash PG. Resident teaching versus the operating room schedule: an independent observer-based study of 1558 cases. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:932-937, 2006
Dexter F, Macario A, Cowen DS. Staffing and case scheduling for anesthesia in geographically dispersed locations outside of operating rooms. Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology 19:453-458, 2006
Kanter G, Connelly NR, Fitzgerald J. A system and process redesign to improve perioperative antibiotic administration. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:1517-1521, 2006
Reich DL, Kahn RA, Wax D, Palvia T, Galati M, Krol M. Development of a module for point-of-care charge capture and submission using an anesthesia information management system. Anesthesiology 105:179-186, 2006
Saadat H, Escobar A, Davis EA, Ehrenwerth J, Watrous G, Fisch GS, Kain ZN, Barash PG. Task analysis of the preincision period in a pediatric operating suite: an independent observer-based study of 656 cases. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:928-931, 2006
Tremper KK, Shanks A, Morris M. Trends in the financial status of United States anesthesiology training programs: 2000 to 2004. Anesthesia & Analgesia 102:517-523, 2006
Vakkuri A, Niskanen M, Meretoja OA, Alahuhta S. Allocation of tasks between anesthesiologists and anesthesia nurses in Finland. Acta Anaesthesiologia Scandinavica 51:659-663, 2006
Vigoda MM, Gencorelli F, Lubarsky DA. Changing medical group behaviors: increasing the rate of documentation of quality assurance events using an anesthesia information system. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:390-395, 2006
Vigoda MM, Lubarsky DA. The medicolegal importance of enhancing timeliness of documentation when using an anesthesia information system and the response to automated feedback in an academic practice. Anesthesia & Analgesia 103:131-136, 2006
2005
Abouleish AE, Apfelbaum JL, Prough DS, Williams JP, Roskoph JA, Johnston WE, Whitten CW. The prevalence and characteristics of incentive plans for clinical productivity among academic anesthesiology programs. Anesthesia & Analgesia 100:493-501, 2005
Kuntz L, Vera A. Transfer pricing in hospitals and efficiency of physicians: the case of anesthesia services. Health Care Management Review 30:262-9, 2005
Lubarsky DA, Reves JG. Effect of subspecialty organization of an academic department of anesthesiology on faculty perceptions of the workplace. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 201:434-437, 2005
Miller RD, Cohen NH. The impact of productivity-based incentives on faculty salary-based compensation. Anesthesia & Analgesia 101:195-199, 2005
Schuster M, Gottschalk A, Berger J, Standl T. A retrospective comparison of costs for regional and general anesthesia techniques. Anesthesia & Analgesia 100:786-794, 2005
2004
Abenstein JP, Long KH, McGlinch BP, Dietz NM. Is physician anesthesia cost-effective?. Anesthesia & Analgesia 98:750-757, 2004
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Whitten CW, Conlay LA. Increasing the value of time reduces the lost economic opportunity of caring for surgeries of longer-than-average times. Anesthesia & Analgesia 98:750-757, 2004
Brenn BR, Lawless ST. A simplified analysis to determine the impact of surgical procedure time on pediatric anesthesia productivity. Health Care Management Review 29:270-7, 2004
Eappen S, Flanagan H, Bhattacharyya N. Introduction of anesthesia resident trainees to the operating room does not lead to changes in anesthesia-controlled times for efficiency measures. Anesthesiology 101:1210-1214, 2004
Schuster M, Standl T, Wagner JA, Berger J, Reimann H, Am Esch JS. Effect of different cost drivers on cost per anesthesia minute in different anesthesia subspecialties. Anesthesiology. 101:1435-1443, 2004
St. Jacques PJ, Patel N, Higgins MS. Improving anesthesiologist performance through profiling and incentives. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 16:523-528, 2004
Tremper KK, Shanks A, Sliwinski M, Barker SJ, Hines R, Tait AR. Faculty and finances of United States anesthesiology training programs: 2002-2003. Anesthesia & Analgesia 99:1185-1192, 2004
Wachtel RE, Dexter F.
Differentiating among hospitals performing physiologically complex operative procedures in the elderly.
Anesthesiology 100:1552-1561, 2004
2003
Abouleish AE, Dexter F, Epstein RH, Lubarsky DA, Whitten CW, Prough DS.
Labor costs incurred by anesthesiology groups because of operating rooms not being allocated and cases not being scheduled to maximize operating room efficiency.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:1109-1113, 2003
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Barker SJ, Whitten CW, Uchida T, Apfelbaum JL. Organizational factors affect comparisons of the clinical productivity of academic anesthesiology departments. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:802-812, 2003
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Whitten CW, Zornow MH. The effects of surgical case duration and type of surgery on hourly clinical productivity of anesthesiologists. Anesthesia & Analgesia 97:833-839, 2003
Dexter F, Wachtel RE, Yue JC.
Use of discharge abstract databases to differentiate among pediatric hospitals’ operative procedures – Surgery in infants and young children in the State of Iowa.
Anesthesiology 99:480-487, 2003
Fasting S, Gisvold SE. Statistical process control methods allow the analysis and improvement of anesthesia care. Candadian Journal of Anaesthesia 50:767-774, 2003
Freund PR, Posner KL. Sustained increases in productivity with maintenance of quality in an academic anesthesia practice. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:1104-1108, 2003
Mongan PD, Van der Schuur LT, Damiano LA, Via DK. Developing meaningful metrics of clinical productivity for military treatment facility anesthesiology departments and operative services with maintenance of quality in an academic anesthesia practice. Military Medicine 168:880-884, 2003
Schubert A, Eckhout G Jr., Tremper K. An updated view of the national anesthesia personnel shortfall. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:207-214, 2003
Snyder-Ramos SA, Bauer M, Martin E, Motsch J, Bottinger BW. Accessible price lists at the anaesthesiologists workplace enhance cost consciousness as a part of process and cost optimization. Der Anaesthesist 52:154-161, 2003
Tremper KK, Barker SJ, Gelman S, Reves JG, Saubermann AJ, Shanks AM, Greenfield ML, Anderson ST. A demographic, service, and financial survey of anesthesia training programs in the United States. Anesthesia & Analgesia 96:1432-1446, 2003
Wang FL, Lee LC, Lee SH, Wu SL, Wong CS. Performance evaluation of quality improvement team in an anesthesiology department. Acta Anaesthesiologica Sinica 41:13-19, 2003
2002
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Whitten CW, Zornow MH, Lockhart A, Conlay LA, Abate JJ. Comparing clinical productivity of anesthesiology groups. Anesthesiology 97:608-615, 2002
Dexter F, Macario A, Penning DH, Chung P.
Development of an appropriate list of surgical procedures of a specified maximum anesthetic complexity to be performed at a new ambulatory surgery facility.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:78-82, 2002
Klein N, Weissman C. Evaluating intraoperative therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:1373-1380, 2002
Treasure T, Valencia O, Sherlaw-Johnson C, Gallivan S. Surgical performance management. Health Care Management Science 5:243-248, 2002
Zbinden AM. Introducing a balanced scorecard management system in a university anesthesiology department. Anesthesia & Analgesia 95:1731-1738, 2002
2001
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Zornow MH, Hughes J, Whitten CW, Conlay LA, Abate JJ, Horn TE. The impact of longer-than-average anesthesia times on the billing of academic anesthesiology departments. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:1537-1543, 2001
Abouleish AE, Prough DS, Zornow MH, Lockhart A, Abate JJ, Hughes J. Designing meaningful industry metrics for clinical productivity for anesthesiology departments. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:309-312, 2001
Barker SJ. Lord or vassal? Academic anesthesiology finances in 2000. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:294-300, 2001
Dexter F, Thompson E. Relative value guide basic units in operating room scheduling to ensure compliance with anesthesia group policies for surgical procedures performed at each anesthetizing location. AANA Journal 69:120-123, 2001
Feiner JR, Miller RD, Hickey RF. Productivity versus availability as a measure of faculty clinical responsibility. Anesthesia & Analgesia 93:313-318, 2001
Weinger MB. Drug wastage contributes significantly to the cost of routine anesthesia care. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 13:491-497, 2001
2000
Abouleish AE, Zornow MH, Levy RS, Abate J, Prough DS. Measurement of individual clinical productivity in an academic anesthesiology department. Anesthesiology 93:1509-1516, 2000
Bell ED, Penning DH, Cousineau EF, White WD, Hartle AJ, Gilbert WC, Lubarsky DA. How much labor is in a labor epidural? Manpower cost and reimbursement for an obstetric analgesia service in a teaching institution. Anesthesiology 92:851-858, 2000
Cromwell J, Snyder K. Alternative cost-effective anesthesia care teams. Nursing Economics 18:185-193, 2000
Gillerman RG, Browning RA. Drug use inefficiency: a hidden source of wasted health care dollars. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:921-924, 2000
Glance LG. The cost effectiveness of anesthesia workforce models: a simulation approach using decision-analysis modeling. Anesthesia & Analgesia 90:584-592, 2000
Jackson T, Myles PS. Part II: Total episode costs in a randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of four anesthetics. Anesthesia & Analgesia 91:1170-1175, 2000
Johnstone RE, Hosaflook C. Financial impact if payers use Medicare rates. Anesthesiology versus other specialties. Anesthesiology 93:852-857, 2000
Le May S, Dupuis G, Harel F, Taillefer MC, Dubé S, Hardy JF. Clinimetric scale to measure surgeons' satisfaction with anesthesia services. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 47:398-405, 2000
Lubarsky DA, Reves JG. Using Medicare multiples results in disproportionate reimbursement for anesthesiologists compared to other physicians. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 12:238-241, 2000
Macario A, Scibetta WC, Navarro J, Riley E. Analgesia for labor pain: a cost model. Anesthesiology 92:841-850, 2000
1999
Cromwell J. Barriers to achieving a cost-effective workforce mix: lessons from anesthesiology. Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law. 24(6):1331-1361, 1999
Franzini L, Berry JM. A cost-construction model to assess the total cost of an anesthesiology residency program. Anesthesiology 90:257-268, 1999
Overdyk FJ, Harvey SC, Baldwin D, Rust P, Multani M, Marcell J. Individualized outcome feedback produces voluntary antiemetic prescribing practice changes. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 11:17-23, 1999
Posner KL, Freund PR. Trends in quality of anesthesia care associated with changing staffing patterns, productivity, and concurrency of case supervision in a teaching hospital. Anesthesiology 91:839-847, 1999
Schlunzen L, Simonsen MS, Spangsberg NL, Carlsson P. Cost consciousness among anaesthetic staff. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 43:202-205, 1999
1998
Dexter F, Lubarsky DA, Gilbert BC, Thompson C.
A method to compare costs of drugs and supplies among anesthesia providers: a simple statistical method to reduce variations in cost due to variations in casemix.
Anesthesiology 88:1350-1356, 1998
Dexter F, Macario A, Dexter EU. Computer simulation of changes in nursing productivity from early tracheal extubation of coronary artery bypass graft patients. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 10:593-598, 1998
Dexter F, Penning DH, Lubarsky DA, DeLong E, Sanderson I, Gilbert BC, Bell E, Reves JG. Use of an automated anesthesia information system to determine reference limits for vital signs during cesarean section. Journal of Clinical Monitoring & Computing 14:491-498, 1998
Pisetsky MA, Lubarsky DA, Capehart BP, Lineberger CK, Reves JG. Valuing the work performed by anesthesiology residents and the financial impact on teaching hospitals in the United States of a reduced anesthesia residency program size. Anesthesia & Analgesia 87:245-254, 1998
Williams BA, Starling SL, Bircher NG, Wilks DH, Watkins WD. Optimization of anesthesia staffing using simulation modeling. American Journal of Anesthesiology 25:113-120, 1998
1997
Dexter F, Coffin S, Woodward J. Performance of anesthesia machines’ devices that are not part of the Food and Drug Administration’s daily checkout. Journal of Clinical Monitoring 13:171-179, 1997
Duncan PG, Ballantyne M. Does the method of payment affect anaesthetic practice? An evaluation of an alternate payment plan. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 44:503-510, 1997
Freund PR, Bowdle TA, Posner KL, Kharasch ED, Burkhart VD. Cost-effective reduction of neuromuscular blocking drug expenditures. Anesthesiology 87:1044-1049, 1997
Lubarsky DA, Glass PSA, Ginsberg B, Dear GDL, Dentz ME, Gan TJ, Sanderson IC, Mythen MG, Dufore S, Pressley CC, Gilbert WC, White WD, Alexander ML, Coleman RL, Rogers M, Reves JG for the SWiPE group. The successful implementation of pharmaceutical practice guidelines: analysis of associated outcomes and costs savings. Anesthesiology 86:1145-1160, 1997
Macario A, Vitez TS, Dunn B, McDonald T, Brown B. Hospital costs and severity of illness in three types of elective surgery. Anesthesiology. 86:92-100, 1997
1996
Cohen MM, Rose DK, Yee DA. Changing anesthesiologists practice patterns- can it be done. Anesthesiology 85:260-269, 1996
Dexter F. Application of cost-utility and quality-adjusted life years analyses to monitored anesthesia care for sedation only. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 8:286-288, 1996
Zvara DA, Mathes DD, Brooker RF, McKinley AC. Video as a patient teaching tool: does it add to the preoperative anesthetic visit? Anesthesia & Analgesia 82:1065-1068, 1996
1995
Dexter F, Tinker JH.
The cost efficacy of hypothetically eliminating adverse anesthetic outcomes from high, but neither low nor moderate, risk surgical operations.
Anesthesia & Analgesia 81:939-944, 1995
Fassett S, Calmes SH. Perceptions by an anesthesia care team on the need for medical direction. AANA Journal 63:117-23, 1995
1994
Horrow JC, Rosenberg H. Price stickers do not alter drug usage. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 41:1047-1052, 1994
1993
Pontone S, Finkel S, Desmonts JM, De Pouvourville G. Is the Relative Complexity Index beta an accurate indicator of the cost of anesthesia? Annales Francaises D Anesthesie et de Reamination 12:539-543, 1993
1990
Gravenstein JS, Cooper JB, Orkin FK. Work and rest cycles in anesthesia practice. Anesthesiology 72:737-742, 1990
Revicki DA, Orkin FK, Luce BR, McMenamin P, Weschler JM. Physician payment reform: anesthesiology as a case study. Anesthesiology 73:760-769, 1990
1973
Ernst EA, Lasdon LS, Ostrander LE, Divell SS. Anesthesiologist scheduling using a set partitioning algorithm. Computers and Biomedical Research 6:561-569, 1973