Thank you very much for discussing and highlighting our committee's survey and study. You are correct about the limitations of the work; these were noted in our discussion as well. Having said that, I believe we adjusted for as many confounding factors as we could in our analysis and still saw a difference in compensation after adjustments. We were unable to obtain results by subspecialties in anesthesia due to inadequate numbers, even though we did ask about subspecialties in the survey. I would be very interested in having the study repeated among SPA members and seeing the whether the SPA results are similar.
Lynne and Myron, Thank you for this post. I would love to see this study repeated among SPA members and would be delighted to be part of the group who helps make that happen!
Thank you very much for discussing and highlighting our committee's survey and study. You are correct about the limitations of the work; these were noted in our discussion as well. Having said that, I believe we adjusted for as many confounding factors as we could in our analysis and still saw a difference in compensation after adjustments. We were unable to obtain results by subspecialties in anesthesia due to inadequate numbers, even though we did ask about subspecialties in the survey. I would be very interested in having the study repeated among SPA members and seeing the whether the SPA results are similar.
Linda B Hertzberg, MD, FASA
Lynne and Myron, Thank you for this post. I would love to see this study repeated among SPA members and would be delighted to be part of the group who helps make that happen!