Operating room (OR) efficiency is a key factor in determining surgical healthcare costs. To enable targeted changes for improving OR efficiency, a comprehensive quantification of the underlying sources of variability contributing to OR efficiency is needed. Previous literature has focused on select stages of the OR process or on aggregate process times influencing efficiency. This study proposes to analyze the OR process in more fine-grained stages to better localize and quantify the impact of important factors.
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