The Anesthesia Provider Shortage

The bottom line

This white paper documents how broad and persistent the anesthesia provider shortage has become, which is useful context for why rescue staffing and locums costs keep rising. Leaders can use it to socialize the market backdrop with administrators. Because it comes from a staffing agency with a commercial interest in the shortage narrative, its figures should be verified against independent workforce data.

What the source found

White-paper summary on anesthesia provider shortage; documents extent of shortage and workforce sustainability concerns.

Limitations and applicability

Staffing agency white-paper; potential commercial bias; secondary synthesis.

Population and setting

U.S. anesthesia providers

Used in FairShare guides

• Why Anesthesiologists Have the Highest Turnover Intent of Any Specialty
• The Anesthesiologist Shortage Isn't Coming — It's Here
• The Rural Anesthesia Gap: What the Workforce Data Shows
• Workforce Capacity Hiding in Plain Sight

About this evidence

Research question / practical issue

How does this source inform Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce for the population it studied?

Study design, evidence tier, and source class

Trade Press · context source · evidence tier 3

Source type: Trade Press · context · Evidence tier 3

Topics: Retention and the Anesthesia Workforce

Audience: Department Leaders