Open AccessVariability in Case Durations for Common Surgical Procedures
Author(s) -
Laurent G. Glance,
Richard P. Dutton,
Changyong Feng,
Yue Li,
Stewart J. Lustik,
Andrew W. Dick
Publication year - 2018
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/ane.0000000000002882
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , intensive care medicine , law , political science
Under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, physician payment will be adjusted using a composite performance score that has 4 components, one of which is resource use. The objective of this exploratory study is to quantify the facility-level variation in surgical case duration for common surgeries to examine the feasibility of using surgical case duration as a performance metric.