Working with a fixed operating room team on consecutive similar cases and the effect on case duration and turnover time

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 145, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1165-1170

  Stepaniak, Pieter S ^a   Vrijland, Wietske W ^c   De Quelerij, Marcel ^c   De Vries, Guus ^a   Heij, Christiaan ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEAMWORK; TIME;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; BAYES THEOREM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 78650790468     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.255     Document Type: Article

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