Operating Rooms - Organization & administration
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting.

29 Sep 2009 There has been a dramatic decline in the number of orthognathic surgery cases over the past 15 to 20 years. This decrease is a result of several compounding factors including decreasing coverage by major medical insurance companies and increasing ... Read more...

Modeling procedure and surgical times for current procedural terminology-anesthesia-surgeon combinations and evaluation in terms of case-duration prediction and operating room efficiency: a multicenter study.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Gains in operating room (OR) scheduling may be obtained by using accurate statistical models to predict surgical and procedure times. The 3 main contributions of this article are the following: (i) the validation of Strum's results on ... Read more...

In-theatre training of anaesthetists in a teaching hospital: has it changed over 10 years?

19 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: We wished to ascertain in what way recent changes such as Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the implementation of the Working Time Directive (WTD) have affected clinical training and experience for anaesthetists in a teaching centre, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Operating Rooms - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Safe, efficient, and cost-effective orthognathic surgery in the outpatient setting. 29 Sep 2009
• Modeling procedure and surgical times for current procedural terminology-anesthesia-surgeon combinations and evaluation in terms of case-duration prediction and operating room efficiency: a multicenter study. 29 Sep 2009
• In-theatre training of anaesthetists in a teaching hospital: has it changed over 10 years? 19 Aug 2009
• Clinical indications for high-field 1.5 T intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging and neuro-navigation for neurosurgical procedures. Review of initial 100 cases. 30 Jul 2009
• Fire in the operating room during open heart surgery: a case report. 30 Jul 2009
• Staff acceptance of video monitoring for coordination: a video system to support perioperative situation awareness. 30 Jul 2009
• Anxiety in the operating theatre: a study of frequency and environmental impact in patients having local, plexus or regional anaesthesia. 30 Jul 2009
• For ED bottlenecks, look at your OR scheduling. 30 Jul 2009
• Efficiency and economics in joint arthroplasty. 30 Jul 2009
• Operating-room throughput: strategies for improvement. 30 Jul 2009
• [Intraoperative radiotherapy: back to the future?] 26 Jul 2009
• The productive operating theatre programme. 29 Jun 2009
• Streamlining the OR. 29 Jun 2009
• Patient safety. What did you say? Noise in the OR raises concern. 29 Jun 2009
• Anesthesia-controlled time and turnover time for ambulatory upper extremity surgery performed with regional versus general anesthesia. 4 Jun 2009
• Planning a cardiovascular hybrid operating room: the technical point of view. 30 May 2009
• [Economic benefits of overlapping induction: investigation using a computer simulation model] 30 May 2009
• Patient care. Taking the guesswork out of scheduling surgeries. 30 May 2009
• What is the best workflow for an operating room? A simulation study of five scenarios. 30 May 2009
• Patient mix optimisation and stochastic resource requirements: a case study in cardiothoracic surgery planning. 30 May 2009

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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;