Appropriate operating room time allocations and half-day block time for low caseload proceduralists, including anesthesiologist pain medicine physicians in the State of Florida

• Published in: Journal of clinical anesthesia Vol. 64; p. 109817
• Main Authors: Dexter, Franklin, Epstein, Richard H., Podgorski, Edward M., Pearson, Amy C.S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2020; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Anesthesia; Anesthesiology; Holidays & special occasions; Hospitals; Human subjects; Medical personnel; Medicine; Pain; Pain Medicine; Physicians; Studies; Surgery; Florida; United States > US

We analyzed University of Iowa operating room data to estimate whether it would be economically rational to allocate, every two weeks, an operating room to anesthesiology pain medicine physicians or a half-day session to individual proceduralists. We investigated the generalizability of the results...