Importance Increasing value requires improving quality or decreasing costs. In surgery,
estimates for the cost of 1 minute of operating room (OR) time vary widely. No benchmark …

Since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, the current decade
has witnessed an explosion of the value-based total hip and knee arthroplasty literature …

We present a narrative review of environmental sustainability aimed at perioperative
clinicians. The review will familiarize readers with the triple bottom line framework, which …

Background Waste is endemic in the US health care system. Operating rooms are a source
of significant solid waste. Surgeons are integral to many decisions in the operating room …

Importance In some centers, the presence of a senior general surgeon (SGS) is obligatory in
every procedure, including appendectomy, while in others it is not. There is a relative paucity …

Purpose Standardized care via a unified surgeon preference card for pediatric
appendectomy can result in significant cost reduction. The purpose of this study was to …

Background: Despite increasing interest in total joint arthroplasty registries, evidence of the
impact of physician-level performance on the value of care provided to patients undergoing …

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically review the risks and benefits of
interventions designed to reduce intraoperative costs. Summary Background Data: Episode …

Abstract Study Objective To reduce operative costs involved in the purchase, packing, and
transport of unnecessary supplies by improving the accuracy of surgeon preference cards …

Introduction Minimally invasive sacrocolpopexy (MISCP) is increasingly used for
uterovaginal prolapse, but comparative cost data of MISCP versus native tissue vaginal …