Axiomatic Design Based Human Resources Management for the Enterprise Transformation of the Abu Dhabi Healthcare Labor Pool

Figures & data

FIGURE 1 Axiomatic design dual hierarchy for healthcare human resources system.

FIGURE 2 Evolution of healthcare professional recruiting in Abu Dhabi, 1967–2012.

FIGURE 3 Evolution of healthcare professional attrition in Abu Dhabi, 1967–2012.

FIGURE 4 Net evolution of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi, 1967–2012.

TABLE 1 Statistical Measure of QoS

Profession	Number of years	Mean number of clinicians/million people	Coefficient of variation	Recruitment slope of log regression line	Attrition slope of log regression line	Net slope of log regression line on	Measure of volatility
Podiatry	3	1	0.29	NaN	NaN	0.29	0.01
Allergy and immunology	32	1	0.32	NaN	NaN	−0.02	0.65
Community medicine	4	4	0.50	NaN	NaN	0.45	0.68
Audiology	15	2	0.75	−0.02	−0.77	0.09	0.75
Speech therapy	12	2	1.03	NaN	NaN	0.11	0.67
Clinical psychology	10	2	1.30	0.17	0.00	0.22	0.40
Social worker	3	7	0.76	NaN	NaN	1.03	0.15
Occupational medicine	12	3	1.21	1.80	0.00	0.24	0.37
Oncology	6	7	0.76	NaN	NaN	0.41	0.22
Critical care	6	12	0.73	NaN	NaN	0.72	0.34
Respiratory therapy	4	17	0.64	NaN	NaN	0.79	0.34
Scientist/engineer	15	6	1.37	NaN	NaN	0.19	0.29
Alternative medicine	23	12	0.87	NaN	NaN	0.16	0.19
Technologists	9	10	1.35	NaN	NaN	0.55	0.12
Psychiatry	31	8	0.93	0.07	NaN	0.09	0.14
Dietician/nutritionist	18	7	1.61	NaN	NaN	0.18	0.38
Family medicine	33	10	2.25	NaN	0.31	0.08	0.64
Pathology	33	26	0.78	NaN	0.02	0.10	0.09
Dermatology	33	29	0.80	NaN	NaN	0.11	0.06
Physiotherapy	15	20	1.10	0.22	NaN	0.18	0.39
Midwife	9	54	1.26	0.78	1.99	0.57	0.09
Ophthalmology	37	38	0.86	0.07	0.01	0.10	0.04
Anesthesia	27	35	1.55	NaN	NaN	0.18	0.05
Obstetrics and gynecology	40	41	0.96	NaN	NaN	0.09	0.05
Emergency medicine	11	51	1.74	NaN	NaN	0.56	0.16
Pediatrics	40	51	1.16	0.14	0.09	0.08	0.08
Radiology	32	44	1.31	−0.39	0.00	0.14	0.08
Medical laboratory	22	60	1.69	NaN	NaN	0.21	0.12
Internal medicine	40	71	1.24	NaN	NaN	0.08	0.11
Surgery	31	114	0.92	−0.51	0.00	0.12	0.05
Dentistry	35	190	0.68	0.04	−0.02	0.08	0.08
Clinical support	28	176	1.58	−1.34	0.00	0.24	0.05
Pharmacy	38	261	1.15	0.09	NaN	0.15	0.02
Medical practitioner	46	193	1.17	0.10	0.05	0.08	0.16
Nurse	28	716	2.04	0.28	0.00	0.29	0.08

NaN = Not a number; N = number of years of data; μ = mean number of clinicians/million people; σ/μ = coefficient of variation; b_R, b_A, and b = the slope of the log regression lines for recruitment, attrition, and net, respectively; 1 − R² = measure of volatility.

FIGURE 5 Evolution of the diversity of healthcare professions by facility.

FIGURE 6 Evolution of the diversity of healthcare professions by region.

FIGURE 7 Map of the Abu Dhabi Emirate with the 15 regions presented in this study.

TABLE 2 Statistical Measures of CoS

			Region	Region	Region
		Region	diversity	diversity slope	diversity
	Number of	diversity	coefficient of	of regression	measure of
Region	years	mean	variation	line	volatility
Al Khatim	19	3	0.65	0.23	0.51
Liwa	14	3	0.83	0.51	0.38
Delma	4	13	0.19	1.60	0.37
Sila	7	7	0.84	2.36	0.17
Shahama	23	3	1.18	0.29	0.62
Ghayathi	20	5	1.11	0.70	0.41
Al Mirfa	18	5	0.96	0.69	0.32
Al Ruwais	15	8	0.60	0.66	0.64
Mussafah	30	2	0.88	0.16	0.39
Baniyas	37	5	0.74	0.36	0.08
Madinat Zayed	33	6	1.17	0.56	0.33
Al Mafraq	16	8	1.34	1.80	0.38
Al Ain	36	16	0.51	0.73	0.11
Abu Dhabi	46	16	0.64	0.77	0.02

Note: N = number of years of data; μ = mean region diversity; σ/μ = coefficient of variation; b = the slope of the regression lines for region diversity; 1 − R² = measure of volatility.

FIGURE 8 Slope of growth for healthcare professions as a function of their existence within Abu Dhabi.

FIGURE 9 Volatility in the growth of healthcare professions as a function of their existence within Abu Dhabi.

FIGURE 10 Slope of healthcare human resources growth by region over the duration that healthcare services have been offered.

FIGURE 11 Volatility of healthcare human resources growth by region over the duration that healthcare services have been offered.

FIGURE 12 Turnover of healthcare human resources per decade.

FIGURE 13 Average license times (in years) by region for each profession.