Overlapping Surgery: A Case Study in Operating Room Throughput and Efficiency

A keystone of operating room (OR) management is proper OR allocation to optimize access, safety, efficiency, and throughput. Access is important to surgeons, and overlapping surgery may increase patient access to surgeons with specialized skill sets and facilitate the training of medical students, r...

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Published inAnesthesiology clinics Vol. 36; no. 2; p. 161
Main Authors Morris, Amanda J, Sanford, Joseph A, Damrose, Edward J, Wald, Samuel H, Kadry, Bassam, Macario, Alex
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2018
Subjects
Overlapping
Metrics
Efficiency
Concurrent
Surgery
Throughput
Parallel
Operations
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Summary:A keystone of operating room (OR) management is proper OR allocation to optimize access, safety, efficiency, and throughput. Access is important to surgeons, and overlapping surgery may increase patient access to surgeons with specialized skill sets and facilitate the training of medical students, residents, and fellows. Overlapping surgery is commonly performed in academic medical centers, although recent public scrutiny has raised debate about its safety, necessitating monitoring. This article introduces a system to monitor overlapping surgery, providing a surgeon-specific Key Performance Indicator, and discusses overlapping surgery as an approach toward OR management goals of efficiency and throughput.
ISSN:1932-2275
DOI:10.1016/j.anclin.2018.01.002