First-Case Operating Room Delays: Patterns Across Urban Hospitals of a Single Health Care System
Purpose: Operating room delays decrease health care system efficiency and increase costs. To improve operating room efficiency in our system, we retrospectively investigated delay frequencies, causes and costs. Methods: We studied all first-of-the-day nonemergent surgical cases performed at thre...
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| Language: | English |
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Aurora Health Care
2016-08-01
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| Series: | Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews |
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| Online Access: | http://digitalrepository.aurorahealthcare.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=jpcrr |