Open AccessThe Impact of Service-Specific Staffing, Case Scheduling, Turnovers, and First-Case Starts on Anesthesia Group and Operating Room Productivity: A Tutorial Using Data from an Australian Hospital
Author(s) -
Catherine McIntosh,
Franklin Dexter,
Richard H. Epstein
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/01.ane.0000244535.54710.28
Subject(s) - staffing , workload , operating room management , operations management , productivity , medicine , scheduling (production processes) , psychological intervention , operations research , computer science , nursing , economics , engineering , macroeconomics , operating system
In this tutorial, we consider the impact of operating room (OR) management on anesthesia group and OR labor productivity and costs. Most of the tutorial focuses on the steps required for each facility to refine its OR allocations using its own data collected during patient care.