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Area of Science:

  • Medical administration
  • Surgical workflow optimization
  • Healthcare management

Background:

  • Operating theatre scheduling relies on accurate procedure time estimations.
  • Inaccurate time predictions lead to significant delays and inefficiencies in surgical workflows.
  • Understanding prediction accuracy across surgical and anaesthetic specialties is crucial for improving scheduling.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the accuracy of surgeons and anaesthetists in predicting procedure durations.
  • To identify discrepancies between predicted and actual times for various surgical specialties and anaesthesia.
  • To elucidate the impact of prediction inaccuracies on operating theatre scheduling.

Main Methods:

  • Prospective observational study conducted at a single level 1 trauma centre.
  • Included 92 operating theatre staff: general, plastic, and orthopaedic surgeons, and anaesthetists.
  • Compared predicted procedure times with actual recorded times to calculate absolute differences.

Main Results:

  • Anaesthetists significantly underestimated procedure times by 35 minutes (167.5% longer than predicted).
  • General surgeons underestimated by 31 minutes (28.7% longer than predicted).
  • Plastic surgeons underestimated by 5 minutes (4.5% longer), while orthopaedic surgeons overestimated by 1 minute (1.1% shorter).

Conclusions:

  • Clinician inability to accurately predict procedure time is a major cause of operating theatre delays.
  • Anaesthetists demonstrated the highest inaccuracy in time prediction.
  • Specialty-specific differences in time estimation highlight the need to clarify "anaesthesia time" definitions.