About this study
ED scheduling is brutal, and the community has strong opinions on what makes a schedule good or bad — quick returns, backward rotations, consecutive nights, and so on. We're building a set of proprietary scheduling indices that try to capture this in numbers. Before anyone trusts those numbers, we need to know whether they match what working ED physicians actually feel.
The metrics behind our indices are grounded in extensive research in physician fatigue, sleep science, circadian biology, and occupational health. For the full list of clinical research supporting our methodology, see the Scientific Foundation & Bibliography.
This site asks practicing ED physicians to compare generated schedules head-to-head so we can answer:
- Do the indices agree with clinician gut judgment?
- What's the smallest index difference a clinician actually notices?
- Do answers vary across 8h and 12h shift profiles?
Why we hide the scores during the session
If you saw the score next to the schedule, your gut would be primed by the number. Hiding it keeps the response honest. We plan to share aggregate findings once we have enough responses.
Uploading your own schedule
Signed-in users will be able to upload a CSV/Excel schedule and get an analysis report. This is coming soon.
Who's behind this
CAIER was founded by Mike Zimmer, MD FACEP — a board-certified emergency physician and clinical informaticist. Meet the founder.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or removal requests: hello@aiertechnologies.com.