E904 CMAJ| JULY 10, 2017| VOLUME 189| ISSUE 27 operating rooms for emergencies
ought to be compensated by downstream cost savings from avoiding a longer hospital stay …

It never fails to surprise me that when surgeons converse, invariably someone complains
that the turnover time in his or her operating room is too long. The other gripes I have …

The issue of allocating capacity to accommodate emergent surgery cases while scheduling
elective patients has major policy implications for Level-1 trauma centers including most …

Methods Through a step-by-step approach, we analyze the patient's journey from the
surgeon's office through the day of surgery to discharge. Using this approach, a series of …

Introduction Time-to-theatre (TTT) is a key performance indicator of theatre efficiency and
delayed TTT incurs significant costs and poor clinical outcomes. An increasing Irish …

Background The average cost of running an operating room (OR) is approximately
37.00aminute.Therefore,everyeffortshouldbemadetostartinatimelyma….Thereareseveralfactorsatplaythatcancause …

Background Operating room (OR) time is expensive. Underutilized OR time negatively
impacts efficiency and is an unnecessary cost for hospitals. The purpose of this study was to …

Operating rooms (OR) generate significant revenue for the hospital. Therefore, the OR
productivity is essential for institutional success. 1 Hospital systems must ensure adequate …

Importance Increasing value requires improving quality or decreasing costs. In surgery,
estimates for the cost of 1 minute of operating room (OR) time vary widely. No benchmark …

Cost containment and smarter service delivery are, in the face of increasing costs, essential
to future NHS sustainability. Effective perioperative care is a vital component of surgical …