Impact on operating room efficiency of reducing turnover times and anesthesia-controlled times [4]

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 336-337

  Dexter, Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LETTER; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TURNOVER TIME;

ANESTHESIA; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846433159     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000253097.64557.7a     Document Type: Letter

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3. Dexter F, Macario A. Changing allocations of operating room time from a system based on historical utilization to one where the aim is to schedule as many surgical cases as possible. Anesth Analg. 2002;94:1272-1279.
4. Dexter F. Deciding whether your hospital can apply clinical trial results of strategies to increase productivity by reducing anesthesia and turnover times. Anesthesiology. 2005;103: 225-228.
5. Dexter F, Abouleish AE, Epstein RH, et al. Use of operating room information system data to predict the impact of reducing turnover times on staffing costs. Anesth Analg. 2003;97: 1119-1126.
6. McIntosh C, Dexter F, Epstein RH. Impact of service-specific staffing, case scheduling, turnovers, and first-case starts on anesthesia group and operating room productivity: tutorial using data from an Australian hospital. Anesth Analg. 2006;103:1499-1516.