Significant operative time is wasted due to non-operative minutes and day-of-surgery cancellations in urology elective lists, requiring a multi-parametric approach to improve efficiency.
Warrants targeted efficiency audits in elective urology lists; leaves open which interventions best reduce non-operative time and cancellations.
A significant proportion of all elective operative time was consumed by non-operative minutes.Inefficiencies existed in turnover of patients as well as over as well as underbooking of patients on elective lists.An excessive number of cases were cancelled on the day of surgery, wasting valuable operative time.A multi-parametric approach must be taken to improve operation list utilisation.
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