Labor costs incurred by anesthesiology groups because of operating rooms not being allocated and cases not being scheduled to maximize operating room efficiency

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1109-1113

  Abouleish, Amr E ^a   Dexter, Franklin ^b   Epstein, Richard H ^c,d   Lubarsky, David A ^e   Whitten, Charles W ^f   Prough, Donald S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Medical Data Applications Ltd   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL COST; LABOR; MEDICAL STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0037377899     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000052710.82077.43     Document Type: Article

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