New study surveys data on operating room efficiency

The folks doing knee and hip replacement surgery at Bryn Mawr (PA) Hospital must be doing something right: For the second year in a row, the 330-bed hospital has been named Best Performer for operating room effectiveness and efficiency by OR Benchmarks, a Santa Fe, NM-based benchmarking company. The hospital was one of a dozen studied that provided data to OR Benchmarks on 51 cases of total knee replacements. Thus far, the company has collected data on 880 cases over the past five years. Data collected ranged from cost of supplies to use of clinical pathways.