Impact on Operating Room Efficiency of Reducing Turnover Times and Anesthesia-Controlled Times
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Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs.
UNLABELLED Potential benefits to reducing turnover times are both quantitative (e.g., complete more cases and reduce staffing costs) and qualitative (e.g., improve professional satisfaction). Analyses have shown the quantitative arguments to be unsound except for reducing staffing costs. We describe a methodology by which each surgical suite can use its own numbers to calculate its individual p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000253097.64557.7a