Value of a scheduled duration quantified in terms of equivalent numbers of historical cases

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 205-210

  Dexter, Franklin ^a   Ledolter, Johannes ^b   Tiwari, Vikram ^c   Epstein, Richard H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHEDULED DURATION;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; OPERATING ROOMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880570319     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e318291d388     Document Type: Article

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