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ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2022

Behavioral economics in neonatology-balancing provider wellness and departmental finances.

Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Steven L Olsen, David A Lubarsky

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Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Resuscitation of neonatal critical care: a call for identity and course correction.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Is it time for a separate residency and department in "Neonatal Critical Care Medicine"?Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
    Review
  5. Article
  6. A survey on transparency in clinical work expectations and compensation factors: empowering women in neonatology.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
    Article
  7. Improving well-being among women in neonatology.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
    Article
  8. Review
  9. Fatigue and fallibility: the perils of prolonged shifts for neonatologists.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023
    Review
  10. Academic neonatologist-a species at the brink of extinction?Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023
    Review
  11. Fundamentals in neonatologist staffing: transparency, autonomy, and partnership.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2023
    Article
  12. Neonatologist staffing models: urgent change is needed.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Satyan LakshminrusimhaDepartment of Pediatrics, UC Davis Children's Hospital, Sacramento, CA, USA. slakshmi@ucdavis.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6098-2155
Steven L OlsenDepartment of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, USA.
David A LubarskyVice-Chancellor and CEO, UC Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Children's Mercy Hospital · USUC Davis Children's Hospital · USUC Davis Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High work relative value units (wRVU) per clinical full-time-equivalent (cFTE) productivity by Neonatologists have played a key role in enhancing departmental revenue in Pediatrics. However, such high productivity is not sustainable due to recent changes in trainee schedules and global daily codes and is likely to impact physician morale and wellness. Incentives based on wRVU benchmarks have the capacity to promote desirable behavior such as better documentation and in-person attendance in delivery room resuscitation and consults but comes at a cost of physician time providing care. An alternate method of funding academic Pediatric departments using time- or point-based staffing models, a reduction in productivity benchmarks for academic neonatologists through more accurate reporting of effort and physician leadership that promotes transparency and mutual respect are warranted to improve neonatologist well-being and morale.

Indexed as

NeonatologyPhysiciansChildEconomics, BehavioralEfficiencyHumansWorkforce

Identifiers

PMID35318428
PMCPMC8939884
OpenAlexW4220812859

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.