Success of commonly used operating room management tools in reducing tardiness of first case of the day starts: Evidence from German hospitals

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 671-677

  Ernst, Christian ^a   Szczesny, Andrea ^b   Soderstrom, Naomi ^c,d   Siegmund, Frank ^a   Schleppers, Alexander ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e Hohenheim Research Center for Innovation and Services ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TARDINESS; WORKLOAD;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; EFFICIENCY; GERMANY; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84865675620     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31825c0486     Document Type: Article

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