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Area of Science:

  • Surgical Performance Analysis
  • Operating Room Efficiency
  • Healthcare Operations Research

Background:

  • Surgeon preparation and warm-up routines may influence procedural performance.
  • Operating room (OR) lists offer a natural experimental setting to study performance factors.
  • Understanding the impact of case order on surgical outcomes is crucial for optimizing OR efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between the order of surgical procedures on an operating list and surgeon performance.
  • To quantify the impact of case list sequencing on operative duration using a large-scale dataset.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 255,757 procedures from UK private hospitals over 26 months.
  • Utilized linear mixed-effects models and matched analyses to assess list order effects.
  • Controlled for prognostic factors and explored variations by procedure type (open vs. minimally invasive) and complexity.

Main Results:

  • Repeating a procedure consecutively saved 0.98% operating time per list position increase.
  • Switching between different procedures increased operative duration by an average of 6.48%.
  • Overall, completing a second procedure immediately after the first reduced total operating time by 6.18%.

Conclusions:

  • A strong correlation exists between operating list composition and surgical performance, measured by operation duration.
  • Evidence-based structuring of theatre lists can lead to significant reductions in total operating time.
  • Optimizing surgical case sequencing offers a practical strategy for enhancing OR efficiency and potentially improving patient throughput.