Table 1.

Perinatology care system scenarios.

Scenario	Independent Variable	Dependent Variable 1: Positional Entropy ${\mathit{H}}_{\mathit{s}}$	Dependent Variable 2: Task Allocation Entropy ${\mathit{H}}_{\mathit{n}\mathit{s}}$
1	Baseline	E1.a	E1.b
2	Baseline maximum entropy	E2.a	E2.b
3	Slack resources (i.e., pooling inpatient wards through hierarchy)	E3.a	E3.b
4	Self-contained task (i.e., multi-skilled nurses for inpatient wards)	E4.a	E4.b
5	Vertical information system	E5.a	E5.b
6	Lateral relations	E6.a	E6.b