Operating Rooms - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Ureteroscope cleaning and sterilization by the urology operating room team: the effect on repair costs.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Flexible ureteroscopes are fragile devices, and the costs associated with their repair and replacement can be considerable. Although surgical use can degrade ureteroscope function, the cleaning and sterilization process can ... Read more...

Lack of sensitivity of staffing for 8-hour sessions to standard deviation in daily actual hours of operating room time used for surgeons with long queues.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: At multiple facilities including some in the United Kingdom's National Health Service, the following are features of many surgical-anesthetic teams: i) there is sufficient workload for each operating room (OR) list to almost always be ... Read more...

Commissioning the ideal perioperative suite: is going it alone your best option?

29 Apr 2009 Commissioning the ideal perioperative suite, what does it really mean to the perioperative manager? Negotiating through the maze of design, furniture and equipment needs in healthcare building projects requires a great deal of time and input and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Operating Rooms - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• From the operating room to the board room: an oculoplastic surgeon's perspective on health care in America: the 2008 Wendell Hughes Lecture. 29 Jun 2009
• Ureteroscope cleaning and sterilization by the urology operating room team: the effect on repair costs. 30 May 2009
• Lack of sensitivity of staffing for 8-hour sessions to standard deviation in daily actual hours of operating room time used for surgeons with long queues. 30 May 2009
• Commissioning the ideal perioperative suite: is going it alone your best option? 29 Apr 2009
• Getting the staff's buy-in for Lean. 29 Apr 2009
• To save money on OR products, call a doctor. 29 Apr 2009
• Incentive payments to academic anesthesiologists for late afternoon work did not influence turnover times. 29 Apr 2009
• Setting up an imaging center, adding CT, MR, [corrected] and an angiography suite to vascular labs. 30 Mar 2009
• Tips for taming the OR chargemaster. 30 Mar 2009
• The effect of the Operating Room Coordinator's risk appreciation on operating room efficiency. 30 Mar 2009
• Typical savings from each minute reduction in tardy first case of the day starts. 30 Mar 2009
• Both bias and lack of knowledge influence organizational focus on first case of the day starts. 30 Mar 2009
• Health economics: what value to the theatre practitioner? 27 Feb 2009
• Tips for taming the OR chargemaster. 27 Feb 2009
• [Simulation-based analysis of novel therapy principles. Effects on the efficiency of operating room processes] 30 Jan 2009
• Increasing operating room throughput via parallel processing may not require extra resources. 30 Jan 2009
• Meeting challenges for spine costs. 30 Dec 2008
• OR leaders bracing for more cost pressures with economic downturn. 30 Dec 2008
• Comparative costs between myocardial revascularization with or without extracorporeal circulation. 29 Nov 2008
• Ten tips in providing value in operating room management. 29 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Operating Rooms'

Definition: Facilities equipped for performing surgery.

Descriptor UI: D009873

Alternative terms: Operating Rooms; Operating Room; Room, Operating; Rooms, Operating;

Related Mesh Headings: Gas Scavengers;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N02.278.388.700;