Predicting the unpredictable: A new prediction model for operating room times using individual characteristics and the surgeon's estimate

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-49

  Eijkemans, Marinus J C ^a   Van Houdenhoven, Mark ^b   Nguyen, Tien ^c   Boersma, Eric ^b   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^c   Kazemier, Geert ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Operating Rooms ^*

^c Department of Public Health   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OPERATION DURATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PREDICTION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGEON; TREATMENT PLANNING; FACTUAL DATABASE; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATING ROOM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPERATING ROOMS; PHYSICIANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049155385     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181c294c2     Document Type: Article

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