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Predicting the obstetric work‐load
Author(s) -
CORMACK R. S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1984.tb07360.x
Subject(s) - medicine , work (physics) , obstetrics , mechanical engineering , engineering
Summary The daily variation in the work‐load of a maternity unit during 1982 was analysed. The data fitted the Poisson distribution quite well, which suggests that future work‐loads can be predicted by this method. Other clinical data of a similar kind should be amenable to the same analysis.