Estimating the duration of common elective operations: Implications for operating list management

Anaesthesia

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 768-776

  Pandit, J J ^a   Carey, A ^b  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANESTHESIST; ANOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CIRCUMCISION; COLON RESECTION; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROLITHOTOMY; NURSING STAFF; OPERATION DURATION; PREDICTION; PROSTATECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; SURGEON; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CONSULTANTS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OPERATING ROOM NURSING; OPERATING ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745834286     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04719.x     Document Type: Article

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