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An editorial discussing structured observations in operating rooms highlights that interruptions, communication failures, team familiarity, and unplanned cases prolong operations and increase costs.
Highlights the importance of well-orchestrated operations and the impact of communication failures and interruptions on operating room efficiency.
Gillespie and colleagues have reported on their structured obser-vations in operating rooms to help us understand which factors (interrup-tions, communication failures, team familiarity and the unpredictability of unplanned cases) prolong the length of an operation and lead to ineffi-ciency and increased costs. All of us feel intuitively that a well-orches-trated operation is best for everyone involveddthe patient, the surgeon, the anaesthesiologist, the nurse and the hospital’s bottom line. Commu-nication failures have been identified
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Julie A. Freischlag (2011) conducted an editorial in Operating room efficiency. An editorial discussing structured observations in operating rooms highlights that interruptions, communication failures, team familiarity, and unplanned cases prolong operations and increase costs.
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