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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Surgical Operations Research

Background:

  • Operating room (OR) efficiency is vital for financial savings, patient safety, and staff satisfaction.
  • Current methods for measuring OR efficiency often rely on complex dashboards with multiple indicators, posing data collection and interpretation challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel, single indicator as a proxy for overall operating room (OR) efficiency.
  • To simplify the measurement of OR efficiency compared to multi-indicator dashboards.

Main Methods:

  • The proposed indicator incorporates four key elements: raw utilization (RU), turn-over time (TT), preparation time (PT), and case cancellation (CC).
  • Raw utilization (RU), representing the percentage of time patients occupy the OR during resource hours, forms the basis of the indicator.

Main Results:

  • The study introduces a simplified approach to OR efficiency measurement.
  • The proposed single indicator aims to overcome the limitations of multi-indicator dashboards, such as data availability and metric interpretation issues.

Conclusions:

  • A single, comprehensive indicator offers a more practical and interpretable method for assessing operating room (OR) efficiency.
  • This approach facilitates better OR management by providing a clear, unified measure of performance.