Potential caseload of ethicists
| Site | No of beds per ethicist | No of ICU* beds per ethicist | No of outpatient visits per year per ethicist† | No of emergency room visits per year per ethicist‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *ICU beds include other types of special care beds as described in table 1. | ||||
| †Outpatient visits are rounded to the nearest thousand. Outpatient visits include community and programme visits but do not include day surgeries. | ||||
| ‡Number of emergency room visits is rounded to the nearest hundred. | ||||
| §At the time the study was conducted site 1 did not have a paid ethicist. The numbers reported in parentheses are the actual number of beds, ICU beds and outpatient visits at the site. | ||||
| ¶Average calculated including all sites. | ||||
| **Average calculated including all sites, except site 1 (no paid ethicist). | ||||
| ††Average calculated including all sites, except site 1 (no paid ethicist) and site 6 (outlier). | ||||
| 1§ | (992) | (6) | (214 000) | No ER |
| 2 | 546 | 14 | 519 000 | 3600 |
| 3 | 216 | 41 | 177 000 | 26 900 |
| 4 | 462 | 48 | 635 000 | 37 000 |
| 5 | 550 | 60 | 503 000 | 55 600 |
| 6 | 2450 | 188 | 1 375 000 | 102 800 |
| 7 | 540 | No ICU beds | 113 000 | No ER |
| 8 | 873 | 49 | 876 000 | 73 300 |
| 9 | 372 | 26 | 194 000 | 61 800 |
| Average¶ | 778 | 48 | 511 778 | 40 111 |
| Average** | 751 | 53 | 549 000 | 45 125 |
| Average†† | 508 | 34 | 431 000 | 36 886 |