Operating room (OR) is a cost‐intensive environment, and it should be managed efficiently.
When improving efficiency, shortening case duration by parallel processing, training of the …

Consumer-driven health care relies on transparency in cost estimates for surgery, including
anesthesia professional fees. Using systematic narrative review, we show that providing …

Operating room (OR) scheduling is an important operational problem for most hospitals. In
this study, we present a novel two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming model to …

Operating rooms are units of particular interest in hospitals as they constitute more than 40%
of total expenses and revenues. Managing operating rooms is challenging due to conflicting …

Purpose: To attempt to quantitate the carbon footprint of minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
through approximated scope 1 to 3 CO2 emissions to identify its potential role in global …

BACKGROUND: It is generally accepted that when an ignition source is used the inspired
oxygen concentration (FIO 2) should be< 30% in the breathing circuit to help prevent airway …

Cost control is becoming increasingly important in hospital management. Hospital operating
rooms have high resource consumption because they are a major part of a hospital., us, the …

Background We review the impact of the consequences of operating room (OR)
management decision making on power analyses for observational studies of surgical site …

Objective Different reasons may cause difficult intraoperative surgical situations. This study
aims to predict intraoperative complexity by classifying and evaluating preoperative patient …

Healthcare is in constant transformation. Health systems should focus on improving
efficiency to meet a growing demand for high-quality, low-cost health care. The operating …