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April 1, 2002Anesthesia & Analgesia318 citations

How to Schedule Elective Surgical Cases into Specific Operating Rooms to Maximize the Efficiency of Use of Operating Room Time

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FDFranklin DexterRTRodney D. Traub

Structured PICO

How should elective surgical cases be scheduled to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time?

P
Population
Surgical suites at which surgeons and patients have access to operating room time every workday
I
Intervention
Scheduling elective cases to maximize efficiency
O
Outcome
Efficiency of use of operating room time

Provides an analytical approach to scheduling elective surgical cases to maximize operating room efficiency.

Abstract

We showed how elective cases should be scheduled to maximize the efficiency of use of operating room time. The analysis applies to surgical suites at which surgeons and patients have access to operating room time every workday.

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Dexter et al. (2002) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d92538da3af5b1d0835caehttps://doi.org/10.1097/00000539-200204000-00030
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