title: Medical staff planning: an approach to managing critical hospital assets.
abstract: In today's harsh economic environment it is critical for hospital administrators to analyze and plan for medical staff composition. Traditional physician resource planning methods are not sufficient. This article presents one approach that can help reduce the uncertainty surrounding and increase the legal defensibility of decisions related to medical staff membership, privileges, size and composition.
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003710:Demography; D005544:Forecasting; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010820:Physicians; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce