2007
DOI: 10.1007/s10729-007-9021-z
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Staggered work shifts: a way to downsize and restructure an emergency department workforce yet maintain current operational performance

Abstract: Starting from the last decade of the twentieth century, most hospital Emergency Department (ED) budgets did not keep up with the demand for ED services made by growing populations and aging societies. Since labor consumes over 50% of the total monies invested in EDs and other healthcare systems, any downsizing, streamlining and reorganization plan needs to first address staffing issues such as determining the correct size of the workforce and its work shift scheduling. In this context, it is very important to … Show more

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“…Such a tool can help health care management evaluate the efficiency of the current practices, carry out "what if" analyses to predict the impact of staffing, resource, and operational changes to determine the optimal system configurations, and investigate the relationships or trade-offs among system variables. For example, recent simulation studies on reducing patient waiting time, determining ED configuration, and allocating resources are reported by Samaha et al, 3 Sinreich and Marmor, 4 Komashie and Mousavi, 5 Hung et al, 6 Sinreich and Jabali, 7 Hoot et al, 8 and Brenner et al 9 The community hospital in this study is a 468-bed tertiary medical center offering patient care to the community of central and eastern parts of the state. The emergency department at this community hospital also faces the challenges of increasing patient visits (48,000 annually), a nursing workforce shortage, and long delays.…”
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confidence: 91%
“…Such a tool can help health care management evaluate the efficiency of the current practices, carry out "what if" analyses to predict the impact of staffing, resource, and operational changes to determine the optimal system configurations, and investigate the relationships or trade-offs among system variables. For example, recent simulation studies on reducing patient waiting time, determining ED configuration, and allocating resources are reported by Samaha et al, 3 Sinreich and Marmor, 4 Komashie and Mousavi, 5 Hung et al, 6 Sinreich and Jabali, 7 Hoot et al, 8 and Brenner et al 9 The community hospital in this study is a 468-bed tertiary medical center offering patient care to the community of central and eastern parts of the state. The emergency department at this community hospital also faces the challenges of increasing patient visits (48,000 annually), a nursing workforce shortage, and long delays.…”
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confidence: 91%
“…From a technical point of view, the paper by Izady and Worthington [113] is most closely related to this chapter, as they use similar performance indicators: sojourn time percentiles and average waiting times. The other three papers that use a network of queues [4,45,168] only use simulation for performance evaluation. Two of these papers, the papers by Ahmed and Alkhamis [4] and by Centeno et al [45], use a sojourn time percentile for performance evaluation, similar to this chapter.…”
Section: Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Of those papers, seven are applied to an emergency department [4,45,56,98,113,168,191] and one is applied to ambulance services [78]. The paper by Defraeye and Van Nieuwenhuyse uses a similar performance metric as this chapter -the expected waiting time.…”
Section: Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Staggered shift scheduling is when shifts do not have to start and finish at the same time. This results in more flexibility to accommodate shifts to the required staffing levels at specific intervals, leading to improved utilization of resources [447]. Shift schedules are impacted by the preferences of staff and by laws prescribing emergency staff is only available for a limited number of hours [164,220].…”
Section: Tactical Planningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Methods: computer simulation [267,447,448,532], heuristics [447,448], queueing theory [215,216,220], literature review [231,282,393].…”
Section: Tactical Planningmentioning
confidence: 99%