Analysis of surgical activity: Description and use of a tool for registering operating room time;Estudio de la actividad quirúrgica: Una herramienta de registro de tiempos

Revista de Calidad Asistencial

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-124

  Prieto Alaguero, Pilar ^a,b   Muñoz, Esther ^a   Royuela, Catalina ^b   Ayuso, Diego ^b  

^a Responsables/Enfermeria Bloque Q   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information management; Surgical efficiency; Surgical times; Surgical unit management; Time management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038715855     PISSN: 1134282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1134-282x(03)77585-x     Document Type: Article

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